In my HTML I have a very long word and I’m trying to force a specific break point only when there isn’t enough room. What I need is a sort of conditional-breaking placeholder. How can I achieve this sort of thing?
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In my HTML I have a very long word and I’m trying to force a specific break point only when there isn’t enough room. What I need is a sort of conditional-breaking placeholder. How can I achieve this sort of thing?
Maybe the Unicode zero-width space would help: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/200b/index.htm
The HTML entity is
​e.g.over​flowwill break the word between “over” and “flow” only when the full word doesn’t fit.