Most elegant way to force a TEXTAREA element to line-wrap, *regardless* of whitespace

Question

Html Textarea elements only wrap when they reach a space or tab character. This is fine, until the user types a looooooooooooooooooooooong enough word. I\'m looking for a wa

Answer 1

• quirksmode.org has an overview of various methods.
• There's a related SO question: "In HTML, how to word-break on a dash?"
• In browsers that support it, word-wrap: break-word might give the desired effect as well.