text does not wrap if has no commas , dots , \n

Question

I have a long text to put in a DIV , it does not wrap and all of the text is displayed in one line .

tried every CSS i know from word-wrap to white-space but nothing works .

if the text contained a \n or , or . it wraps .

Any idea on how to wrap it even if none of these existed ? without using the width in css

Thank you .

possible duplicate of [wordwrap a very long string](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/856307/wordwrap-a-very-long-string) — Alin Purcaru, Mar 29 '11 at 15:38

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Previously answered:

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Mar 29 '11 at 15:35

Jollymorphic

Though it didn't work without adding a `width` in the css , but i managed to add it . – Rami Dabain Mar 29 '11 at 15:50

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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The short answer to this is the css property word-wrap: break-word.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered Mar 29 '11 at 15:36

Ian Pugsley

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 29 '11 at 15:37

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Try it like this:

white-space: normal;
word-wrap: break-word;

answered Mar 29 '11 at 15:37

Alin Purcaru

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