HTML change line break trigger?

Question

Is there any way in CSS/HTML to change what characters cause linebreaks in text to be allowed? For example if I have table data containing the text \"fooooooo/barrrrrrrrr\"

Answer 1

There is no way to tell the browser to allow wrapping on specific characters.

The CSS3 word-wrap: break-word; property will get you part of the way there by allowing the line to break on any character. This will happen if the text is longer than the computed maximum width of its containing element.

If you are dynamically generating the HTML output server-side, you could do a regex search and replace to insert a space before the character you'd like to (optionally) wrap on but, without knowing the context, it's hard to be more specific about that.