Css heading text wrap

How to wrap text using CSS? [duplicate]

Eugh. Inputs are there to display input. I thought we had managed to get beyond lying about semantics for presentational purposes.

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If you type «AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG» this will produce:

AARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG G 

I have taken my example from a couple different websites on google. I have tested this on ff 5.0, IE 8.0, and Chrome 10. It works on all of them.

I added «word-wrap: break-word;» but didnt work neither in Firefox nor in IE(I tested only in these two). n when I added all the option you suggested.. it worked. Thanks.

I had to add «white-space: -webkit-pre-wrap;» to get new versions of Chrome (and probably Safari) to work.

thanks, it worked! bootstrap was doing a thing on its own, and nothing helped. Finally the right solution for me.

Try doing this. Works for IE8, FF3.6, Chrome

  
 
 
gdfggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
 
 
 
  

tested it myslef and it works great! i assume that the only «problem» here, is that you have to set manually the size of the container (100px in this example)

With text-wrap, browser support is relatively weak (as you might expect from from a draft spec).

You are better off taking steps to ensure the data doesn’t have long strings of non-white-space.

@SandRock — No, it isn’t. That is a mischaracterisation of half of this answer. The data in the question, while being a «long string of non-white-space» was not a «word». «taking steps» also doesn’t mean «don’t input», we don’t know where the data is coming from, it could mean testing user input for sanity and displaying an error message for inappropriate content.

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Forcing headings to wrap in html

I have a web page that displays a pdf document. In the header there is an image and an h1 tag that contains a name. When the name is too long, it gets cut off. How can I force it to wrap to the next line instead so that the entire name is displayed? I tried inserting a style=»white-space:normal» but it doesn’t help. Any suggestions?

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It should have the combination of two:

word-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal; 

h1 tags wrap by default. If they’re not, something in your CSS is overriding that default behaviour. If you can post a link to the site, we can quickly help you out. You might want to consider installing Firebug for Firefox — it’ll let you right-click on the h1 and view what styles are being applied to it, and from where they come.

Is the header contained wihtin another element such as a div? If so, check the overflow for that element and/or try setting it to visible like this:

the h1 tag has a zero line height

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Wrapping and breaking text

This guide explains the various ways in which overflowing text can be managed in CSS.

What is overflowing text?

In CSS, if you have an unbreakable string such as a very long word, by default it will overflow any container that is too small for it in the inline direction. We can see this happening in the example below: the long word is extending past the boundary of the box it is contained in.

CSS will display overflow in this way, because doing something else could cause data loss. In CSS data loss means that some of your content vanishes. So the initial value of overflow is visible , and we can see the overflowing text. It is generally better to be able to see overflow, even if it is messy. If things were to disappear or be cropped as would happen if overflow was set to hidden you might not spot it when previewing your site. Messy overflow is at least easy to spot, and in the worst case, your visitor will be able to see and read the content even if it looks a bit strange.

In this next example, you can see what happens if overflow is set to hidden .

Finding the min-content size

To find the minimum size of the box that will contain its contents with no overflows, set the width or inline-size property of the box to min-content .

Using min-content is therefore one possibility for overflowing boxes. If it is possible to allow the box to grow to be the minimum size required for the content, but no bigger, using this keyword will give you that size.

Breaking long words

If the box needs to be a fixed size, or you are keen to ensure that long words can’t overflow, then the overflow-wrap property can help. This property will break a word once it is too long to fit on a line by itself.

Note: The overflow-wrap property acts in the same way as the non-standard property word-wrap . The word-wrap property is now treated by browsers as an alias of the standard property.

An alternative property to try is word-break . This property will break the word at the point it overflows. It will cause a break-even if placing the word onto a new line would allow it to display without breaking.

In this next example, you can compare the difference between the two properties on the same string of text.

This might be useful if you want to prevent a large gap from appearing if there is just enough space for the string. Or, where there is another element that you would not want the break to happen immediately after.

In the example below there is a checkbox and label. Let’s say, you want the label to break should it be too long for the box. However, you don’t want it to break directly after the checkbox.

Adding hyphens

To add hyphens when words are broken, use the CSS hyphens property. Using a value of auto , the browser is free to automatically break words at appropriate hyphenation points, following whatever rules it chooses. To have some control over the process, use a value of manual , then insert a hard or soft break character into the string. A hard break ( ‐ ) will always break, even if it is not necessary to do so. A soft break ( ­ ) only breaks if breaking is needed.

You can also use the hyphenate-character property to use the string of your choice instead of the hyphen character at the end of the line (before the hyphenation line break).

This property also takes the value auto , which will select the correct value to mark a mid-word line break according to the typographic conventions of the current content language.

The element

In the below example the text breaks in the location of the .

See also

• The HTML element
• The CSS word-break property
• The CSS overflow-wrap property
• The CSS white-space property
• The CSS hyphens property
• Overflow and Data Loss in CSS

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text-wrap

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The text-wrap CSS property controls how text inside an element is wrapped. The different values provide:

• Typographic improvements, for example more balanced line lengths across broken headings
• A way to turn text wrapping off completely.

Note: The white-space-collapse and text-wrap properties can be declared together using the white-space shorthand property.

Syntax

/* Keyword values */ text-wrap: wrap; text-wrap: nowrap; text-wrap: balance; /* Global values */ text-wrap: inherit; text-wrap: initial; text-wrap: revert; text-wrap: revert-layer; text-wrap: unset; 

The text-wrap property is specified as a single keyword chosen from the list of values below.

Values

Text is wrapped across lines at appropriate characters (for example spaces, in languages like English that use space separators) to minimize overflow. This is the default value.

Text does not wrap across lines. It will overflow its containing element rather than breaking onto a new line.

Text is wrapped in a way that best balances the number of characters on each line, enhancing layout quality and legibility. Because counting characters and balancing them across multiple lines is computationally expensive, this value is only supported for blocks of text spanning a limited number of lines (the Chromium implementation uses four wrapped lines or less), meaning that it is useful for cases such as headings or pull quotes.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

text-wrap =
wrap |
nowrap |
balance |
stable |
pretty

Examples

Basic text wrap value comparison

HTML

h2 class="wrap" contenteditable="true"> The default behavior; the text in the heading wraps "normally" h2> h2 class="nowrap" contenteditable="true"> In this case the text in the heading doesn't wrap, and overflows the container h2> h2 class="balance" contenteditable="true"> In this case the text in the heading is nicely balanced across lines h2> 

CSS

.wrap  text-wrap: wrap; > .nowrap  text-wrap: nowrap; > .balance  text-wrap: balance; > h2  font-size: 2rem; font-family: sans-serif; > 

Result

The text in the example is editable. Change the text, adding long words, to view how the different line and word lengths impact wrapping.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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See also

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