Word-wrap in an HTML table

Question

I\'ve been using word-wrap: break-word to wrap text in divs and spans. However, it doesn\'t seem to work in table cells. I have a tabl

Answer 1

Problem with

longtextwithoutspace

is that it will work not so good when text has some spaces, e.g.

long text with andthenlongerwithoutspaces

If word andthenlongerwithoutspaces fits into table cell in one line but long text with andthenlongerwithoutspaces does not, the long word will be broken in two, instead of being wrapped.

Alternative solution: insert U+200B (ZWSP), U+00AD (soft hyphen) or U+200C (ZWNJ) in every long word after every, say, 20th character (however, see warning below):

td {
  border: 1px solid;
}

  

    

      

        Looooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooong word
      
    
    
Short word
  

Warning: inserting additional, zero-length characters does not affect reading. However, it does affect text copied into clipboard (these characters are of course copied as well). If the clipboard text is later used in some search function in the web app... search is going to be broken. Although this solution can be seen in some well known web applications, avoid if possible.

Warning: when inserting additional characters, you should not separate multiple code points within grapheme. See https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries for more info.