Line breaks in html table

Sounds terrible but you should use:

<tr><td><br></td></tr>

You can do this by setting a width for the table and you could also use

word-wrap:break-word;

In order to prevent really long words to break out of boundaries.

Width is best set in css:

Edit: include

table-layout:fixed;

Demo

http://jsbin.com/atonut/1/edit

table {
width:500px;
table-layout:fixed;
}


td {
word-wrap:break-word;
}

If your problem is a lot of text rather then incredibly long words, only use width, and leave the word-wrap out. Hope that helps.