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Asked: 2026-06-18T22:06:55+00:00

I have the following HTML markup (simplified) <div class=controlDiv style=white-space: nowrap> <div class=pre></div><input style=width:

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I have the following HTML markup (simplified)

<div class="controlDiv" style="white-space: nowrap">
  <div class="pre"></div><input style="width: 100%"><div class="post"></div>
  <div class="validationMsg" style="white-space: normal">some message</div>
</div>

the inner Div (validationMsg) shows dynamically, in FF the text message is wrapped correctly, it’s non longer than the input field above.

but in IE8 white-space property is ignored, text isn’t wrapped automatically. I did some experiments in IE developer tools, I have turned of white-space property, when wrapping was applied correctly (but fails formating of the input fields pre and post symbols, where we need to disable wrapping)

code looks like a little bit mess, but the used framework is very strict, so I was able to append only a new div or paragraph into the controlDiv.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It may not the best solution, but what IE acts is that nowrap from parent IS APPLIED to layout of validationMsg, so it’s not possible to set “white-space: normal” by itself. My solution is to have a wrapper for validationMsg with style “width: 100% (or any size that you want to apply to validationMsg div); white-space: normal”, so layout looks good to IE as well as other browsers.

    Here is an example that I posted: http://jsbin.com/edeqam/1

    It looks consistant on all browsers.

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