How to word wrap text in HTML?

You can use a soft hyphen like so:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

This will appear as

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

if the containing box isn't big enough, or as

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

if it is.

On bootstrap 3, make sure the white-space is not set as 'nowrap'.

div {
  width: 200px;
  word-break: break-all;
  white-space: normal;
}

Try this:

div {
    width: 200px;
    word-wrap: break-word;
}

div {
    /* Set a width for element */
    word-wrap: break-word
}

The 'word-wrap' solution only works in IE and browsers supporting CSS3.

The best cross browser solution is to use your server side language (php or whatever) to locate long strings and place inside them in regular intervals the html entity ​ This entity breaks the long words nicely, and works on all browsers.

e.g.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa​aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa