Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 09/22/06 21:48

Brian Cryer wrote:

> The <wbr> tag is great, widely supported but isn't in the w3c spec,
> so if you use it then your page won't validate.

Who cares?

> I know this because I
> used to make frequent use <wbr> until I got my fingers burnt over
> validation.

You can stop playing with a validator then, or you can use a DTD that allows
<wbr> (as explained on my page that I mentioned).

> As an alternative, why not use the word-wrap css,

Because it does something completely different and isn't consistently
implemented (and isn't in any w3c spec).

Breaking a URL at an arbitrary character is surely not desirable, or even
acceptable.

Followups trimmed - this is not about Dreamweaver.

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

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