How to force breaking of non breakable strings?

Question

I have an HTML page that I generate from the data contained in a database. The database sometimes contains long strings that the browser can\'t break because the strings don\'t

Answer 1

Yes you can, just set the css property of the box to:

.some_selector {
    word-wrap: break-word;
}

Edit: Some testing shows that it does work with a div or a p - a block level element - but it does not work with a table cell, nor when the div is put inside a table cell.

Tested and works in IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 3.5.3 and Chrome.

Works:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaffffdffffdffffdffffdffffdffffdffffdffffdffffdffffdffffdffffdffffdffffdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa