On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:58 PM, na...@thesmudge.com wrote: > It seems that the entities for zero width non-joiner and thin space don't > work in IE8. > Is there some CSS way of accomplishing the same thing? > I'm showing examples of citations of online sources, some of which have > long URLS or URLS that might start at the end of a line. The correct way > to format these in APA style is to break the URL before a punctuation > mark. So, for instance, I am using this: > http://www.sage-ereference.com‌/homelessness/Article_n83.html > to force the line to break after com and before /homeless. > It works in FireFox and IE7, but not IE8. > Or this: > http://images.nbii‌.gov/details.php?id=55510&cat=search%20results > to force a line break after nbii and before .gov > Breaks can look confusing if the width of the page varies, because the > citations are in divs styled with: > margin-left:20px; text-indent:-20px; line-height:200%; > to show hanging indents.
Adding those characters in the URL's result in 404 errors, if the user copy-paste that string. You may want to look at the work-break property https://developer.mozilla.org/En/CSS/Word-wrap Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
