[WEB4LIB] defining HTML line-break points?

[Kenneth Irwin]

Thanks all,

the non-breaking space tag is just what i was looking for. finally! a
legitimate use for the tag!

ken

At 11:33 AM 02/04/2002 -0500, Chris Gray wrote:
>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
>> 
>

Ken Irwin	                            		kirwin at wittenberg.edu
Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian	(937) 327-7594
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University