CSS: white-space: nowrap does not seems to work in IE

Question

Here is the jsfiddle of the below code. http://jsfiddle.net/ux4DD/. What I want is the name Harry Pham to be in one line, so I make the width very

Answer 1

For IE 6 and 7 you need to wrap your text with a <span> tag and give it a white-space property. Since you already have a <span> tag wrapped around your text and you have a class for it, just add the white-space property to your <span> class .linkColor.

.linkColor{
    white-space:nowrap;
}

Check working example at http://jsfiddle.net/ux4DD/1/

Answer 2

Hope this will be helpful:

var buttons = document.getElementsByTagName('button');
 for(var j=0; j < buttons.length; j++) {
 var button = buttons[j];
 var textNode = button;
 while(textNode.children[0]) {
 textNode = textNode.children[0];
 }
 var text, words, numSplits;
 var spacing = 0;
        while(button.scrollWidth !== 0 && button.clientWidth !== 0 &&
              button.scrollWidth > button.clientWidth) {
    if(!spacing) {
        text = textNode.innerHTML;
        words = text.split(' ');
        numSplits = Math.ceil(button.scrollWidth / button.clientWidth);
        spacing = Math.round((words.length)/numSplits);
    }
    for(var i = spacing; i < words.length; i+=spacing+1) {
        words.splice(i , 0, '<br />');
    }          
    textNode.innerHTML = words.join(' ');
    spacing--;
    words = text.split(' ');
}
}

Ref: Word wrapping for button with specified width in ie7?