[WEB4LIB] defining HTML line-break points?

[Chris Gray]

Just replace all the spaces where you don't want a break with a
non-breaking space character entity:   

Then it will choose some other place to break when it needs to.

For example:

| Wittenberg Home | Prospective Students |
Wittenberg Students | Alumni & Friends | ... etc.

Chris Gray
Library Systems
University of Waterloo


On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Kenneth Irwin wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Does anyone know if it's possible in HTML to define preferred points for
> breaking a line -- something that a browser would interpret as "hey, if you
> have to wrap this line, break it <here>";
> 
> Here's the instance I have in mind; at the bottom of our library page we
> have links to the other sections of the University web page, separated by
> pipes "|"
>
> | Wittenberg Home | Prospective Students | Wittenberg Students |
Alumni &
> Friends | Parents & Visitors | Faculty & Staff | 
> 
> In some browsers/resolutions/fonts this shows up very nicely all in one
> line; in some it wraps. On *my* screen, it breaks at the ampersand in
> "Parents & Visitors"; I'd rather have it break a pipe where it has to break
> at all, but I'd rather not have it break when possible.
> 
> Any ideas, or am i just too darn picky?
> 
> Thanks
> Ken
> Ken Irwin	                            		kirwin at wittenberg.edu
> Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian	(937) 327-7594
> Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
>