Firefox word-break breaks short words at random points

Question

I\'m break-wording a container so that extremely long words won\'t overflow. While Chrome and Safari deal with this really well, it seems that Firefox and IE li

Answer 1

I did a temporary fix by changing my break-word code to:

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

The words are no longer breaking weirdly. I'm just not sure how safe this is in terms of cross-browser support (as I've only tested with the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari)

Apparently hyphenation is only supported with en-US explicitly declared. If anybody has a more valid answer/explanation, I will gladly accept your answer.