HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
This property sets how the whitespace and newlines in an element are
calculated.
■
normal
: Lines of text are wrapped to fill each successive line box with
text; sequences of whitespace (multiple space, tab, or newline charac-
ters) are collapsed (default).
■
pre
: Text is considered to be preformatted in the source markup docu-
ment and whitespace, including newline characters, remains intact
(default for
<pre>
element).
■
nowrap
: Whitespace is collapsed as normal, and all text is forced to the
same line.
In addition to setting the behavior for
whitespace
, with
word-wrap
you
can allow browsers to break lines in the middle of words to prevent long
strings of characters from overflowing a box.
■
break-word
: Allows a browser to place a break within a word to
prevent a long word with no whitespace characters from overflow-
ing the box; words are broken by character, not syllables, and are not
hyphenated.
■
normal
: Single words cannot be broken (default).
The
text-indent
property defines an indentation for the first line of text
in a block.
■
<length>
: A fixed measurement for the indentation
■
<percentage>
: A percentage length relative to the
width
property of
the containing block
