Posted by Andy Hassall on 10/22/22 11:26

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:31:59 -0400, Mark <Mark.Fenbers@noaa.gov> wrote:

>Andy Hassall wrote:
>>
>> Have a look at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html for a fairly involved
>> discussion of the HTML equivalent.
>
>Actually, It was Jukka Korpela who pointed out in another post that I
>could use the <wbr> tag to indicate a permissible place for a line
>break. This is used inside <nobr> tags, which seems counter-intuitive
>at first, but it gives you control as to exactly where you will permit a
>line break and nowhere else...
>
>I've already tried it, and <wbr> works well for IE, but Firefox just
>ignores it.

Neither <nobr> nor <wbr> exist in HTML 4.01, so Firefox is correct in ignoring
them.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html

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