Question

Html Textarea elements only wrap when they reach a space or tab character. This is fine, until the user types a looooooooooooooooooooooong enough word. I’m looking for a way to strictly enforce line breaks (eg.: even if it results in ‘loooooooooooo \n ooooooooooong’).

The best I’ve found is to add a zero-width unicode space after every letter, but this breaks copy and paste operations. Anyone know of a better way?

Note: I’m referring to the ‘textarea’ element here (i.e.: the one that behaves similarly to a text input) – not just a plain old block of text.

Answer 1

The CSS settings word-wrap:break-word and text-wrap:unrestricted appear to be CSS 3 features. Good luck finding a way to do this on current implementations.