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

I tested the , ​ and ­ techniques. All three worked well in IE 7, Firefox 3 and Chrome.

The only one that did not break the copy/paste was the tag.