Comments on: Line breaks with javascript

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:58:22 +0000

Emil,
Interesting article. I used it as a basis when asked how to format poetry so lines that wrapped were right aligned.
http://www.hftonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17015 Due to problems with innerWidth, I changed mine to use innerHeight. You don’t need to specify a required height, just check for when it increases due to wrapping. Thought you might be interested.
Chris.

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:56:57 +0000

@Ed Everett: you are free to use it any way you want, with or without credit.

Conserning your other problem, have you tried setting the width of the column in the CSS too?

By: Ed Everett

Ed Everett — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:23:08 +0000

This is very nice, but I’d suggest it has one problem when used with real text:

It seems to break any word that is at the end of the line irrespective of how long that word is. Ideally it should only break individual words that are too long.

If it could cope leaving normal lines alone while breaking the words that are too long then I’d say it was perfect.

By the way, do you mind if I use this on a site? (with appropriate credit of course).