Question

If I just put word-break: break-all on an element, I often end up with this:

Hello people, I am typing a mes
sage that’s too long to fit!

Obviously this would be much better as:

Hello people, I am typing a
message that’s too long to fit!

But at the same time if someone writes:

BLAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Then I’d want it to be:

BLAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR
RGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

I can’t seem to find a way to actually do this.

Note that the width of the element is not fixed and may change.

Answer 1

Try word-break: break-word; it should behave as you expect.