How to force a line break in a long word in a DIV?

Use word-wrap:break-word; It even works in IE6, which is a pleasant surprise. word-wrap: break-word has been replaced with overflow-wrap: break-word; which works in every modern browser. IE, being a dead browser, will forever rely on the deprecated and non-standard word-wrap instead. Existing uses of word-wrap today still work as it is an alias for overflow-wrap … Read more