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

The answer that won the bounty is correct, but it doesn't work if the first row of the table has a merged/joined cell (all the cells get equal width).

In this case you should use the colgroup and col tags to display it properly:

<table style="table-layout: fixed; width: 200px">
<colgroup>
    <col style="width: 30%;">
    <col style="width: 70%;">
</colgroup>
<tr>
    <td colspan="2">Merged cell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td style="word-wrap: break-word">VeryLongWordInThisCell</td>
    <td style="word-wrap: break-word">Cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>