word-break – Tarik Billa

How to use automatic CSS hyphens with `word-break: break-all`?

August 9, 2023 by Tarik

The word-break property and hyphenation are two completely different things. The first one, originally intended for East Asian languages mainly, does bad things to languages like English: it arbitr arily cuts w ords at some poi nts without ind icating that a word has been broke n. So you should decide whether you have an … Read more

Smarter word break in CSS?

February 14, 2023 by Tarik

Try word-break: break-word; it should behave as you expect.

Difference between overflow-wrap and word-break?

December 16, 2022 by Tarik

Quoting from source overflow-wrap: The overflow-wrap CSS property is used to specify whether or not the browser may break lines within words in order to prevent overflow when an otherwise unbreakable string is too long to fit in its containing box. word-wrap: The word-wrap property was renamed to overflow-wrap in CSS3. word-break: The word-break CSS … Read more