Question

I have two floated divs, side by side, with p tags inside. The text within the p tags does not wrap and just overflows the container, as you can see in the text under the images:

My HTML looks like so:

        <div class="submenu">
            <h3>Destinations in Europe</h3>
            <ul>
                <li><a href="#">dfgdgdgfgdg</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">dfgdgdgfgdg</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">dfgdgdgfgdg</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">dfgdgdgfgdg</a></li>
            </ul>
            <h3>Features</h3>
            <div>
                <img src="/assets/images/o/menu/city-feat-one.jpg" />
                <h4>blahblah</h4>
                <p>
                    khkhjhjkhkyhkighkjfkhkiyhohhjkhjlhkluoiulohlhjhiououhljhiououhljhiououhljhiououhljhiououhljhiououhl
                </p>
            </div>
            <div>
                <img src="/assets/images/o/menu/city-feat-two.jpg" />
                <h4>blahblah</h4>
                <p>
                    khkhjhjkhkyhkighkjfkhkiyhohhjkhjlhkluoiulohlhjhiououhl
                </p>
            </div>           
        </div>

My CSS:

#rb-menu-com li .submenu > div { 
    width:48%;
    float:left;
    position: relative;
}

#rb-menu-com li .submenu div p {
    color:#fff;
    margin: 0;
    padding:0;
    width:100%;
    position: relative;
}

#rb-menu-com li .submenu div img {
    border:1px solid #fff;
}

Has anyone experienced this before? I haven’t!! Driving me mad!

Answer 1

Word wrapping only occurs when there is a word break.

If you have a "word" that is as long as that, then there is no place for it to break.

The proper solution is to write real content and not nonsense strings of characters. If you are using user generated content, then add a check for exceptionally long words and disallow them (or cut out part of them for URLs while keeping the whole thing in a link).

Alternatively, you can use the word-break CSS property to tell the browser to line break in the middle of words.

p { word-break: break-all }

(Note browser support).

Alternatively, you can use overflow to truncate the text if it won’t fit in the container.