How do i stop words breaking in css?

body { word-wrap: break-word;}

I've been using that code (above) to fit the text in the body into it's container. However what I don't like about it, is that it breaks up words.

Is there another way where it will not break up words and only line break after or before a word?

EDIT: This is for use within a UIWebView.

Abizern

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asked Sep 23, 2010 at 6:11

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use white-space: nowrap;. If you have set width on the element on which you are setting this it should work.

update - rendered data in Firefox

answered Sep 23, 2010 at 8:08

Vinay B RVinay B R

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Please use nowrap and wrap value didn't come for me. nowrap solved the issue.

white-space: nowrap;

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answered Nov 15, 2017 at 7:19

CodeCode

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May be a bit late but you can add this css to stop word breaks:

.element {
    -webkit-hyphens: none;
    -moz-hyphens:    none;
    -ms-hyphens:     none;
    hyphens:         none;
}

answered Jul 27, 2016 at 10:32

RalphonzRalphonz

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I had the same problem, I solved it using following css:

.className {
  white-space:pre-wrap;
  word-break:break-word;
}

answered Jul 3, 2018 at 17:20

sumit dubeysumit dubey

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You can try this...

body{
white-space: pre; /* CSS2 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla */
white-space: -hp-pre-wrap; /* HP printers */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: pre-wrap; /* CSS 2.1 */
white-space: pre-line; /* CSS 3 (and 2.1 as well, actually) */
word-wrap: break-word; /* IE */
}

{word-wrap:;} is an IE proprietary property, and not a part of css. firefox's handling is correct. Unfortunately, FF does not support a soft hyphen / . so that's not an option. You could possibly insert a hair or thin space, / (check me on the numeric entity) and / , respectively.

Making {overflow: hidden;} would cut the overflow off, and {overflow: auto;} would cause the overflow to enable scrolling.

answered Sep 23, 2010 at 6:18

Pramendra GuptaPramendra Gupta

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In my situation I am trying to ensure words wrap at proper word-breaks within table cells.

I found I need the following CSS to achieve this.

table {
  table-layout:fixed;
}
td {
  white-space: wrap;
}

also check that nothing else is changing word-break to break-word instead of normal.

answered Feb 12, 2013 at 23:24

Dave SagDave Sag

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For me, the parent was smaller than the word. Adding will break on spaces, but not words :

    word-break: initial;

answered Jul 18, 2020 at 6:38

Andrew MagillAndrew Magill

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I use this Code for our website to stop the word-breaking:

body {
    -ms-hyphens: none;
    -webkit-hyphens: none;
    hyphens: none;
}

answered Aug 27, 2020 at 19:08

Use white-space: nowrap;

CSS white-space Property

white-space: normal|nowrap|pre|pre-line|pre-wrap|initial|inherit;

Know more about white-space example

answered Aug 2, 2019 at 4:58

sivaharisivahari

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Word break issue on Firefox browser. So you can use to prevent word-break:

-webkit-hyphens: none;
-moz-hyphens: none;
hyphens: none;

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answered Jan 6, 2020 at 10:27

.className {
    hyphens: none;
    word-break: keep-all;
}

answered Jun 6 at 13:00

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I faced a similar problem in my grid structure and I used, word-break: break-word; in my grid and my issue got resolved.

answered Aug 12, 2016 at 9:06

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This helped me with old Webkit - this one from phantomjs 2.1

.table td {
    overflow-wrap: break-spaces;
    word-break: normal;
}

answered Dec 8, 2020 at 11:35

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