Miles Tillinger schrieb, am 24.05.04 02:40:
IE6 wraps long URL's at spaces ( ), hyphens (-), question marks (?) and percent signs (%), whereas Mozilla doesn't wrap unbroken strings at all. In the crazy world of CMS's and unpredictable 'cowboy' content editors this can be a bit of a problem for multi-column portal sites. Is there any way to make Mozilla play nice without resorting to a server-side solution?
AFAIK nothing that works cross-Browser.
There are several CSS3-properties that should influence line-breaks. Rather complicated and probably a long way to implementation. <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514/#word-break-inside> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514/#wrap-option> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514/#linefeed-treatment>
There are some special unicode characters - not supported by IE and hence not applicable.
IE's line-breaking behaviour is nothing others should imitate. See
<http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/nobr.html>
The text discusses primarly the opposite problem: Keeping IE from line-breaking, but is also informative for your problem.
IMHO the only chance to handle the problem is server-sided.
greetings Susanne
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