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Posted by FFMG on 08/07/07 06:38
Jukka K. Korpela;85512 Wrote:
> Scripsit Ben C:
>
> >> So I would rather the url be forcefully wrapped to the next line
> >> rather than breaking my display.
> - -
> > The only way to do it is to put a zero-width space between each
> > character (​).
>
> The zero-width space character should not be expected to work
> consistently
> across browsing situations. In particular, it may well result in the
> display
> of a symbol for an unrepresentable character, if a browser does not
> recognize the special meaning of the character and does not even find
> a
> glyph for it in the available fonts.
>
> Note that there is no requirement in HTML specifications that the
> zero-width
> space be processed in any particular way, except that it be treated as
> a
> whitespace character. The rules of HTML do not require conformance to
> the
> Unicode Standard, or its line breaking rules in particular. It's more
> or
> less the general idea that the zero-width space should be treated as
> allowing a line break, but this is not a requirement.
>
> Using <wbr> is safer, despite being "nonstandard". It works in a great
> majority of browsing situations, and it causes no harm (it is simply
> ignored) when it does not work.
>
> Note that URLs should not be broken arbitrarily across line but only at
> some
> reasonable breaking points, like after a "/". So <wbr> should be
> inserted at
> selected positions only.
>
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Thanks for the tip.
I will use <wbr>
FFMG
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