word-wrap

What is the difference between "word-break: break-all" versus "word-wrap: break-word" in CSS

I am currently wondering what is the difference between the two. When I used both they seem to break the word if it is not fitting the container. But why did W3C made two ways to do it? ...

make gvim treat wrapped line as new line...

When I press "j" or arrow down in vim/gvim the cursor moves to the next line. which is good for writing code. When writing text however the lines are usually much longer then the text with. Therefore I can not easily get the word just above THIS word. So in almost all editors and text processors pressing the up arrow HERE ↑ would put th...

How to do word wrap in a DevExpress TcxGrid?

I've got a long line of text that would be a lot easier to view if it would just word wrap around multiple lines, but I can't seem to find the option for it. Does anyone know how to enable word-wrap functionality? ...

Why wont \marginpar wrap it's text [Solved]

I'm using miktex 2.8 on windows. For some reason, the \marginpar command has stopped working. It used to work as expected, but not the lines will not wrap. I have set marginparwidth to 1in and still the lines will not wrap, they just go right off the page (or right into the text for margin pars on the odd pages). If I change marginparwid...

Column Wordwrap in JQGrid

Hi, Anybody knows on how to wrap column names in JQGrid. Please find my JSON code below colModel: [ { name: 'RequestID', index: 'CreditRequest.CreditRequestID', width:100, align: 'left' },..... With reference to the above code if the size of the content exceeds I want it to be wrapped. Any thoughts or comments ...

IE6 anchor wordwrapping (display:block, width:0)

Hello, Unfortunaly this site we're developing has to be IE6 compatible. It contains a horizontal block style menu, but there's still one more problem with IE6. I have the following code: <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> a { display: block; width: 0px; background-color: red; } </style> </head> <body> <a href="#">This is a anchor t...

Word Wrap in PyGTK TreeView

How can I word wrap text inside a PyGTK TreeView? ...

Wrap Text in UITextField?

Does anyone know how to wrap text in a UITextField? I am using Cocoa/Objective-C in Xcode for my iPhone project, and I can not seem to find a way to do this... ...

Word Wrap algorithms for Japanese

In a recent web application I built, I was pleasantly surprised when one of our users decided to use it to create something entirely in japanese. However, the text was wrapped strangely and awkwardly. Apparently browsers don't cope with wrapping japanese text very well, probably because it contains few spaces, as each character forms a w...

Word-wrap grid cells in Ext JS

(This is not a question per se, I'm documenting a solution I found using Ext JS 3.1.0. But, feel free to answer if you know of a better solution!) The Column config for an Ext JS Grid object does not have a native way to allow word-wrapped text, but there is a css property to override the inline CSS of the TD elements created by the gri...

HTML: Why doesn't Firefox use wrap="off" when set by JavaScript?

I'm using this: $('document').ready(function(){ $('textarea').attr('wrap', 'off'); }); (JQuery) (Firefox 3.5) I'm checking with WebDeveloper that the wrap attribute indeed is set to off in the page when I'm loading it up, but the text still wraps. If I hard-code the invalid HTML of wrap="off" into the <textarea> in my HTML, it wo...

How to use Emacs to write comments with proper indentation, line-length, and wrapping?

I'm tired of writing comments that look like this { # bla bla blabla bla blabla bla blabla # bla bla blabla bla blabla bla blabla bla blabla bla blabla bla bla # blaaa bla } I have to manually wrap the lines and take care of the # as well. How do emacs pros make the editor work for them? ...

Wrapping a text using php, based on language

Hi! My problem is that I have quite a small area (div or span), in which one to about five words are displayed. However, the area is too small for some words (for instance "muziekgeschiedenis" will surpass the area's bounds). Is there a way in PHP to wrap this word, but not solely based on number of characters? I can use wordwrap(), or ...

Which text editor to add line break (not word wrap) at same column throughout source code file?

I'm preparing some documentation and need to format my source code with line breaks that need to appear in column 70 throughout the file. The text editors I have only seem to have features to word wrap the source at this column. I'm wondering whether I need to do this manually since - because of the varying length of the last word at t...

CSS overflow and word-wrap behaviour not helping me at all

You can see how the filename field should look at http://www.plifk.com/henvic/114 and how it breaks the layout at http://www.plifk.com/henvic/159 If I used 108574main-neutron-star-and-a-very-bad-overfow-will-happen-here-so-sad.mpg I would not get an overflow, but in the first line "108574main-neutron-star-and-a-very-" and in the second ...

CSS: Nested elements without explicit width and word wrap

I am trying to position a caption below an image without explicit knowledge of the images' width. I would like the caption to extend to the full image width, but not to stretch the parent elements' witdh and wrap the lines instead. I would like to avoid using javascript (reading and applying widths to elements) or using max-width:123px ...

What are the split characters in Silverlight's TextWrapping?

The TextWrapping feature in Silverlight is described here. However, I'm trying to find out the details of their line-breaking algorithm. Obviously a space will cause the text to break (or split), encouraging the text to wrap to the next line. And through trial and error I've found that these characters also cause a split: \t (tab) -...

BlackBerry Browser: weird text wrapping behavior

When viewing the following test page with the browser in the BlackBerry 9630 simulator, the text width is wider than the screen width. So, when zoomed to 100%, one has to pan. http://sites.inka.de/klee/blackberry/text.html What solutions are there to make the text wrap to screen width? ...

Wrap words in uitableview, iphone

I am creating an rss feed application. As a sample i have downloaded apples rss feed, but the problem with it is that the words in the table cells are not wrapped. As the contents are of very lengthy, the users may not be able to read the full text from the table unless by going to that link. Instead, I need to display that in 2 or 3 lin...

SVG Word wrapping function in PHP?

Before I go ahead and try to code my own, are there any functions / libraries for PHP which will generate SVG images with text wrapped to a bounding box? I'm looking for a function which will accept a string and a bonding box, along the lines of: wrapText($text,$x,$y,$width) So if $text were "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Do...