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<br>
<nobr>After a few moments, the load on your server will begin
to diminish and will eventually drop to zero.</nobr>
Notice in the example source and its display (
Figure 4-16
) that we've
included the special
<tt>
tag inside the first
<nobr>
tag, thereby render-
ing the contents in monospaced font. If the
<nobr>
-tagged text cannot
fit on a partially filled line of text, the extended browser precedes it with
a line break, as shown in the figure. The second
<nobr>
segment in the
example demonstrates that the text may extend beyond the right win-
dow boundary if the segment is too long to fit on a single line. For some
reason, Netscape, but not the other popular browsers, fails to provide a
horizontal scroll bar so that users can read the extended text, though.
Figure 4-16. The <nobr> extension suppresses text
wrapping; for reasons unknown, Netscape doesn't
enable a scroll bar so that you can read the extended
text
The
<nobr>
tag does not suspend the browser's normal line-filling pro-
cess; it still collects and inserts images andbelieve it or notasserts forced
line breaks caused by the
<br>
and
<p>
tags, for example. The
<nobr>
