The soft hyphen () and cross browser compatibility

The soft hyphen supposedly allows you to specify a place in a word where a logical break could go in case it would be preferable for the word to wrap. A hyphen should appear mid word only if the word wraps. (- or perhaps should it be there in the very beginning?!)

Date Created: 11th February 2007
Date Modified: 11th February 2007

Home > HTML > table columns

Mentioned in WebmasterWorld HTML Forum:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/css/3248536.htm

W3C: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html#h-24.2.1

Other references:

Soft hyphen (SHY) - a hard problem? http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html
The mysterious disappearance of "" http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/fb/shy173.html
The wbr tag (and  / ) http://www.quirksmode.org/oddsandends/wbr.html

Browser test of  (numeric equivalent of )

Test:
TestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestTextTestText

[Home]

The soft hyphen (&shy;) and cross browser compatibility

Browser test of &#173; (numeric equivalent of &shy;)

The soft hyphen () and cross browser compatibility

Browser test of (numeric equivalent of )