Using “word-wrap: break-word” within a table [duplicate]

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Word-wrap in a html table

This text behaves exactly the way I want on Google Chrome (and other modern browsers):

<div style="border: 1px solid black; width:100%; word-wrap: break-word;">
  <p>
    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
  </p>
</div>

1. When the browser is wide enough, a+ and b+ are on the same line.

   aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
   

2. As you narrow the browser, a+ and b+ are put on separate lines.

   aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
   bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
   

3. When b+ can no longer fit, it is broken and put on two lines (for a total of three lines).

   aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
   bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
   bbbbbbbb
   

That's all great.

In my situation, however, this is not a div but a table, like so:

<table style="border:1px solid black; width:100%; word-wrap:break-word;">
  <tr>
    <td>
      <p>
        aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
        bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
      </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

In this case, #1 and #2 happen, but not #3. That is, the table stops narrowing after step 2 and step 3 doesn't ever happen. The break-word doesn't seem to be filtering down.

Does anyone know how make #3 happen? The solution only need work in Chrome, but it it also worked in other browsers that would be even better.

P.S. "Don't use tables" is not helpful.

Answer 1

table-layout: fixed will get force the cells to fit the table (and not the other way around), e.g.:

<table style="border: 1px solid black; width: 100%; word-wrap:break-word;
              table-layout: fixed;">
  <tr>
    <td>
        aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
        bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

Answer 2

You can try this:

td p {word-break:break-all;}

This, however, makes it appear like this when there's enough space, unless you add a <br> tag:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

So, I would then suggest adding <br> tags where there are newlines, if possible.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

http://jsfiddle.net/LLyH3/3/

Also, if this doesn't solve your problem, there's a similar thread here.