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Preventing breaks within non-standard 'words'

Sent by Curtis Clark on 12 September 2004 05:05


on 2004-09-11 14:28 Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> But I think it's really simpler (and more effective - works when CSS is
> off, too) to use the nonstandard <nobr> markup in HTML:
> <nobr>/cis/-acting</nobr>

One could make a good case that non-breaking is at least sometimes an 
attribute of content rather than presentation. Certainly Unicode has 
plenty of ways to control breaking (which unfortunately don't all work 
in browsers), and it is intended for plain text.

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