Prevent line-break of span element
If you only need to prevent line-breaks on space characters, you can use entities between words:
No line break
instead of
<span style="white-space:nowrap">No line break</span>
Put this in your CSS:
white-space:nowrap;
Get more information here: http://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Properties/white-space
white-space
The white-space property declares how white space inside the element is handled.
Values
normal
This value directs user agents to collapse sequences of white space, and break lines as necessary to fill line boxes.
pre
This value prevents user agents from collapsing sequences of white space. Lines are only broken at newlines in the source, or at occurrences of "\A" in generated content.
nowrap
This value collapses white space as for 'normal', but suppresses line breaks within text.
pre-wrap
This value prevents user agents from collapsing sequences of white space. Lines are broken at newlines in the source, at occurrences of "\A" in generated content, and as necessary to fill line boxes.
pre-line
This value directs user agents to collapse sequences of white space. Lines are broken at newlines in the source, at occurrences of "\A" in generated content, and as necessary to fill line boxes.
inherit
Takes the same specified value as the property for the element's parent.