[thelist] Forcing wrap in table cells

Peter-Paul Koch gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 1 05:15:48 CST 2001


>neither <wbr> or <nobr> exist in HTML... at least not in 2.0, 3.2, or
>4.01... nor within XHTML 1.0...

It may not be in the specs but it's supported by NN4 and 6 and IE5.5 (just 
tested it) without the necessity for <NOBR>. Opera 5 does indeed not support 
it.

>i believe these tags were introduced by Netscape back in version
>2.0 or so, and it may still support them as late as version 4, but
>since the tags don't exist, i wouldn't expect Netscape 6 to support
>them...

Well, it does. Backward compatibility wins once again.

ppk

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