word-wrap:break-word does not work in tables
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(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)
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(Reporter: karl156, Unassigned)
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(Blocks 1 open bug, )
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(Keywords: css3, dev-doc-needed, testcase, Whiteboard: [css3-text])
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100812 Minefield/4.0b4pre See Testcase Reproducible: Always
Updated•14 years ago
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Does this work in other browsers? If so, if you add an explicit 'width: 0' to the table, does the table end up one letter wide?
The only one I know is, that Opera changed their behavior in 10.50 that this works correctly. 'width:0' does not work. After a short try I had to set at least 'width:13px' for the table to get any effect. If I take a shorter word (max 142 chars) this also works with 'width:1px' in Opera. IE8 and Iron 4 show the same behavior as Firefox. I have not tested IE9 or Webkit nightly builds.
Word-wrap is overflow-wrap now. "For legacy reasons, UAs may also accept ‘word-wrap’ as an alternate name for the ‘overflow-wrap’ property. However this syntax non-conforming in author style sheets." http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#overflow-wrap
Comment 5•12 years ago
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Didn't we decide this aliasing was an awful idea? What happened?
http://www.w3.org/blog/CSS/2011/08/06/resolutions_174/ http://www.w3.org/blog/CSS/2012/02/19/resolutions-24/ (bottom) If anyone decided it was an awful idea, they didn't inform the CSSWG about it... afaik those resolutions are still in effect.
Comment 7•10 years ago
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"word-wrap: break-word;" table-cell block * Opera (P) 12.16 working working * Safari 7.0.1 working working * Firefox 27 NOT working working When working, it behaves like a "word-break: break-all;"
Comment 8•10 years ago
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This bug also applies to CSS layouts that use `display: table`. The relevant styles are: `white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;` Chrome 39 renders the content as expected: http://i.imgur.com/MPPSrj9.png Whereas Firefox 34 behaves like `break-all`: http://i.imgur.com/eHYvkQv.png
Updated•10 years ago
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Just got bit by this. It’s still broken in latest Firefox. Not aware of any other browser with this issue.
Comment 10•8 years ago
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I just tested in Chromium 49 and today's Firefox nightly, and both now render the testcase on this bug similarly (for both the given test, and when table-layout:fixed is used on the table). According to a similar bug report on Chromium's end, this is intentional, and they expect authors to use table-layout:fixed to get break-word working in table cells: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=155767 In light of this, I suspect this is a WONTFIX.
Comment 11•8 years ago
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BTW, this test case is better supported by word-break: break-word; rather than: word-wrap: break-word; The former does not expand container. See https://crbug.com/492202, the former was not defined in CSS, but it will be.
Comment 13•6 years ago
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This is the rendering Using the testcase https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=466097 Chrome/Safari behaves the same. Firefox renders the table with width in 1 column of 100px
Comment 14•6 years ago
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I would say this is working now?
Updated•2 years ago
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Comment 15•2 years ago
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The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 10 votes.
:dholbert, could you consider increasing the bug severity?
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Comment 16•2 years ago
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The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.
Comment 17•2 months ago
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= Text wrapping unbreakable texts in "<table>" has incorrect width assumption =
Derived from: https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=%23
Test case:
[[
<body style="word-wrap: break-word; border: 1px solid">
<table><tr>
<td style="background-color: #ff9bce; word-wrap: break-word">af,as,ast,az,bgc,bho,bn,brx,ca,ccp,ce,ceb,chr,cv,cy,da,de,doi,dsb,dz,ee,en,es,eu,fi,fil,fo,fr,fy,ga,gd,gl,gu,gv,hi,hi-Latn,hsb,hu,ia,id,ii,is,ja,ka,kea,kgp,kk,kn,ko,kok,ks,ksh,ku,ky,lb,lij,lkt,lo,lv,mai,ml,mn,mni,mr,ms,my,nb,nds,nl,nn,no,oc,or,os,pcm,pl,pt,qu,raj,ru,sa,sc,sd-Deva,si,so,sq,sr,su,sv,szl,ta,tg,th,tk,to,tr,tt,uz,vi,vmw,xh,yo,yrl,yue,yue-Hans,za,zh,zh-Hant</td>
<td style="background-color: #a5d6ff">af,as,ast,az,bgc,bho,bn,brx,ca,ccp,ce,ceb,chr,cv,cy,da,de,doi,dsb,dz,ee,en,es,eu,fi,fil,fo,fr,fy,ga,gd,gl,gu,gv,hi,hi-Latn,hsb,hu,ia,id,ii,is,ja,ka,kea,kgp,kk,kn,ko,kok,ks,ksh,ku,ky,lb,lij,lkt,lo,lv,mai,ml,mn,mni,mr,ms,my,nb,nds,nl,nn,no,oc,or,os,pcm,pl,pt,qu,raj,ru,sa,sc,sd-Deva,si,so,sq,sr,su,sv,szl,ta,tg,th,tk,to,tr,tt,uz,vi,vmw,xh,yo,yrl,yue,yue-Hans,za,zh,zh-Hant</td>
</tr></table>
af,as,ast,az,bgc,bho,bn,brx,ca,ccp,ce,ceb,chr,cv,cy,da,de,doi,dsb,dz,ee,en,es,eu,fi,fil,fo,fr,fy,ga,gd,gl,gu,gv,hi,hi-Latn,hsb,hu,ia,id,ii,is,ja,ka,kea,kgp,kk,kn,ko,kok,ks,ksh,ku,ky,lb,lij,lkt,lo,lv,mai,ml,mn,mni,mr,ms,my,nb,nds,nl,nn,no,oc,or,os,pcm,pl,pt,qu,raj,ru,sa,sc,sd-Deva,si,so,sq,sr,su,sv,szl,ta,tg,th,tk,to,tr,tt,uz,vi,vmw,xh,yo,yrl,yue,yue-Hans,za,zh,zh-Hant
]]
"word-wrap: break-word" ("overflow-wrap: break-word") doesn't work intended.
"overflow-wrap: anywhere" ("word-break: break-word") works though.
Comment 18•29 days ago
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The issue is not Firefox-exclusive: affects Chrome too.
Comment 19•27 days ago
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(In reply to Thomas Wisniewski from comment #10)
I just tested in Chromium 49 and today's Firefox nightly, and both now
render the testcase on this bug similarly
[...]
In light of this, I suspect this is a WONTFIX.
(In reply to Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow from comment #14)
I would say this is working now?
Yup, I think we're good here, and I agree we should WONTFIX. In particular:
- Firefox's behavior today matches Firefox's behavior as of Nightly 2011-01-01 (approximately when this was filed).
- Other browser engines (Chromium and WebKit) match us at this point.
- The one thing that we were doing differently in comment 13's screenshot (which I can reproduce in Nightly 2018-08-16) seems to have been a temporary issue that's been fixed in more recent builds.
I suspect the lack-of-text-wrapping-in-the-table-sizing here arises out of some specialized/quirky behavior of word-wrap
(per comment 11) and/or tables; not sure about the exact details, and it's perhaps weird, but it's good that things are interoperable, and that there's an alternate bit of CSS (word-break: break-word
) that's designed a bit more recently/intentionally and interoperably produces the desired result.
(In reply to Master ? [:masterquestionable] from comment #17)
= Text wrapping unbreakable texts in "<table>" has incorrect width assumption =
[...]
"word-wrap: break-word" ("overflow-wrap: break-word") doesn't work intended.
"overflow-wrap: anywhere" ("word-break: break-word") works though.
(In reply to Master ? [:masterquestionable] from comment #18)
The issue is not Firefox-exclusive: affects Chrome too.
Firefox, Chrome, and Safari all render the testcase from comment 17 the same; I suspect it is the same issue described in this bug (so: good that you posted here), and I think your note comparing of word-wrap
vs. word-break
matches comment 11 here.
Unless there were an agreed-upon standards-based resolution to change behavior here (with browsers agreeing to do something different from what we interoperably do now), I don't think we're going to spend time doing something different & breaking compatibility/interoperability on this point. Hence: --> WONTFIX.
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