Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 09/21/06 21:41

Jim Moe wrote:

> Do not use the URL as the displayed text.

Agreed.

> Or you can add arbitrary spaces to the URL every nth character but
> then the URL text cannot be copied/pasted.

No, that's a wrong approach. If you _really_ must put URLs as text on a web
page, throw in some <wbr> tags after suitable characters, such as "?", "/",
and "&". See
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/nobr.html#suggest

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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