Discussion on: What is the <wbr> HTML tag and why do I need it?

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That's why  is usually the preferred way, since the added hyphen adds a visual hint that this is one very long word which has been broken due to space restrictions.

See Vesas reply above.

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Discussion on: What is the <wbr> HTML tag and why do I need it?

Replies for: You know, jokes aside, when you say that As you can see right away the version is way more readable because we control where it breaks! The CSS ...