HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
<wbr>
Function
Defines a potential line-break point if needed
Attributes
None
None in HTML;
</wbr>
or
<wbr ... />
in
XHTML
End tag
Contains
Nothing
Used in
text
Now,
<wbr>
may seem incredibly esoteric to you, but scowl not. There
may come a time when you want to make sure portions of your document
appear on a single line, but you don't want to overrun the browser win-
dow margins so far that readers will have to camp on the horizontal scroll
bar just to read your fine prose. By inserting the
<wbr>
tag at appropriate
points in the nonbreaking sequence, you let the browser gently break the
text into more manageable lines:
<nobr>
This is a very long sequence of text that is
forced to be on a single line, even if doing so causes
<wbr>
the browser to extend the document window beyond the
size of the viewing pane and the poor user must scroll right
<wbr>
