Comments on: Word wrapping, JavaScript vs CSS

By: llogiq

llogiq — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:56:54 +0000

You might improve your solution by using regular expressions. You could for example replace the whole loop with the following:
string = string.replace(/([^\s\t\r\n<>]{30})/g, “$1”);

By: Jürgen Jeka

Jürgen Jeka — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:43:13 +0000

“word-wrap: break-word” is suppoorted in Gecko 1.9.1 (Firefox 3.5). See
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/word-wrap

j.j.

By: Inigo

Inigo — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:08:59 +0000

This is a solution that gives higher quality splitting, but can be a bit slow on large chunks of text:

http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/

It’s JavaScript too, and uses the same hyphenation algorithm as LaTeX.

By: James Aguilar

James Aguilar — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:38:14 +0000

I can’t read the code because the text is too dark.