word-wrap does not work in IE

Question

Word-wrap as follows:

    /* The Breakage of Too Long Words */

div.break_word {
    width: 690px;
    word-wrap: break-word;
}

does wrap the

Answer 1

Your p within div works fine even in IE6. Your div within pre is invalid HTML.

Answer 2

Word wrap can be implemented for IE in the following way as well:

div {
  max-width: 200px;
  word-wrap: break-word;
}

<div>loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooongword</div>
<div>long long long long long long long word</div>

Answer 3

As word-wrap is a CSS3 property, it is only supported by IE9 and higher. For IE8 try

-ms-word-wrap

So try

div.break_word {
    width: 690px;
    word-wrap: break-word;
    -ms-word-wrap: break-word;
}

Hope this helps.

Update

It seems that even if you use -ms-word-wrap in IE7, it defaults the white-space: nowrap; which then overrides the word-wrap property.

Once again a IE hack is required. Try adding this for IE7.

white-space: normal;