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Word wrap is the additional feature of most text editors, word processors, and web browsers, of breaking lines between words rather than within words, where possible. Word wrap makes it unnecessary to hard-code newline delimiters within paragraphs, and allows the display of text to adapt flexibly and dynamically to displays of varying sizes.
The purpose of this template is to force-wrap short lines of text, such as in table headers and table cells, without using HTML <br /> tags. <br /> can cause screen-reader issues, such as inserting long pauses or stating a line break. Screenreaders reading text output from this template should sound as if the text were one continuous line ...
Prevent word wrapping in the output of template name/link (parameters will wrap if needed) ... [text] Replace [text] with the actual label to be displayed for the ...
and , spaced and wrap-sensitive interpunct (dot) and bullet. Help:Line-break handling, Wikipedia's how-to guide about word wrapping and line breaks. In particular, to avoid line wrapping when quoting a passage such as a poem or computer code, see Template:Quote § Line breaks – e.g. Template:Blockquote with "poem" tag.
In many cases breaking up a word with a space would be inappropriate. Soft hyphens also creates word-break opportunities, but will add a hyphen rather than a space. In other words, a soft hyphen is a hyphen inserted into a word not otherwise hyphenated, to be displayed or typeset only if it falls at the end of a line of text.
Prevent word wrapping in the output of template name/link (parameters will wrap if needed) ... [text] Replace [text] with the actual label to be displayed for the ...
Prevent word wrapping in the output of template name/link (parameters will wrap if needed) ... [text] Replace [text] with the actual label to be displayed for the ...
and , spaced and wrap-sensitive interpunct (dot) and bullet. Help:Line-break handling, Wikipedia's how-to guide about word wrapping and line breaks. In particular, to avoid line wrapping when quoting a passage such as a poem or computer code, see Template:Quote § Line breaks – e.g. Template:Blockquote with "poem" tag.