Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 04/12/06 22:13

sapanparikh18@gmail.com wrote:

> Can any one suggest a good way of hyphenation in an HTML table?

There is none.

> I have tried ­ but I cant say it is completely automated.

Besides, ­ is far from universally supported, and it will appear as
a visible hyphen in many circumstances.

> I am looking for
> some kind of line breaking algorithm.

Browsers have some line breaking algorithms, usually poor and
undocumented, but that's a different issue.

Please explain and illustrate the problem. Browsers generally do not
hyphenate words, and this is sometimes a small problem, but what makes
this a big problem? If it's the fixed width you have allocated for a
table column, the solution should be obvious...

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