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A hard break ( ? ) will always break, even if it is not necessary to do so. A soft break ( ­ ) only breaks if breaking is needed. You can also use the hyphenate-character property to use the string of your choice instead of the hyphen character at the end of the line (before the hyphenation line break).

The overflow-wrap CSS property applies to inline elements, setting whether the browser should insert line breaks within an otherwise unbreakable string to prevent text from overflowing its line box.

CSS property: word-break: break-word This feature is deprecated/obsolete and should not be used.

The Excel wrap text feature can help you fully display longer text in a cell without it overflowing to other cells. "Wrapping text" means displaying the cell contents on multiple lines, rather than one long line.

Break text: With this option, you can add the image anywhere on the page. The difference between this and the wrap text option is that the latter will break and rearrange the lines to provide room for your image. It does not affect the spacing between words like the wrap text option.

The CSS property word-wrap (renamed to overflow-wrap in CSS3 to better reflect its intended purpose) specifies whether a word may be broken at an otherwise disallowed point in order to prevent overflow of the parent container. The CSS property word-break specifies whether a break may occur within a word.

The word-break property in CSS is used to specify how a word should be broken or split when reaching the end of a line. The word-wrap property is used to split/break long words and wrap them into the next line.

You can use the CSS property word-wrap:break-word; , which will break words if they are too long for your span width.

The text wrapping break lets you specify the point where the text should drop down below the picture. When you have text wrapping around a picture, you may be tempted to just put in extra line breaks or paragraph breaks when you want to shift text down below the picture, as below.