Reputation: 471

How to break long words in a table td?

This is what I have:

<td style='width:        500px;
           white-space:  pre-wrap;
           white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;
           white-space: -pre-wrap; 
           white-space: -o-pre-wrap;
           word-wrap:    break-word;'>

Upvotes: 18

Answers (4)

Steve

Reputation: 3649

I used:

word-wrap: break-word;
word-break: break-all;
table-layout: fixed;

table-layout: fixed was the key to making it work.

Upvotes: 36

Red

Reputation: 3169

I think this solution will help you!

pre {
    white-space: pre;           /* CSS 2.0 */
    white-space: pre-wrap;      /* CSS 2.1 */
    white-space: pre-line;      /* CSS 3.0 */
    white-space: -pre-wrap;     /* Opera 4-6 */
    white-space: -o-pre-wrap;   /* Opera 7 */
    white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla */
    white-space: -hp-pre-wrap;  /* HP Printers */
    word-wrap: break-word;      /* IE 5+ */
}

http://perishablepress.com/press/2010/06/01/wrapping-content/

// Edit

It's been a long time since this was accepted as the best answer and updates are required. See @benhowdle89's and @Steve's answers below.

So the current browser support is now good enough to use word-break in order to allow words to be broken over multiple lines.

word-break: break-all

http://caniuse.com/#feat=word-break

Upvotes: 15