How to force breaking of non breakable strings?

Question

I have an HTML page that I generate from the data contained in a database. The database sometimes contains long strings that the browser can\'t break because the strings don\'t

Answer 1

As it has been pointed out numerous times, no, there is nothing you can do about it, without preprocessing the strings programmatically before displaying them.

I know there is a strategy with inserting the soft hyphen character (­), where needed, but does not seem like a popular option.

Check out this question: Soft hyphen in HTML ( vs. ­)