I know it’s all the rage among web developers to blame IE for everything that’s wrong on the Internet but sometimes – just sometimes – the folks in Redmond get it right and the fine volunteers of the Mozillaverse get it wrong. Perhaps there’s no better example of this than word breaking in columns. For years, IE has had the ever-so-useful CSS property “word-wrap” which, when supplied with a value like “break-word”, will split up a long string of text and preserve the precious layout you’ve slaved for hours to create. It’s so handy, in fact, that it actually made it into the CSS3 spec (don’t be a hater – even the standards busybodies know a good thing when they see it).
Unfortunately, Firefox doesn’t recognize this property. Yes, I know it’s supposed to in version 3.5+ but I have yet to see it actually working. I’ve spent the better…
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