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    Drag the table onto the text. Click on the small square icon in the upper left corner of the table. Then hold and drag the table to where you want it to be within the text. Test out different positions to see if it will automatically wrap to your desire. If it doesn’t wrap how you want it to, follow along for the next steps![1]

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    Go to the Table Layout. Place your cursor anywhere in the table and then click on «Layout» in Word’s upper menu bar that is located directly underneath the blue title bar. You will see two different Layout buttons within this menu — you should click the one on the farthest right.[2]

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    Click on the “Properties” button. This is located on the far left of the top menu. In the pop-up window that appears, click on the “Around” button underneath the bolded header, “Text Wrapping.” This ensures that text will wrap around your table.

    • Depending on your version of Word, you may have to click on the «Table» tab at the top left of the pop-up window. Do this right after clicking «Properties» so you are directed to the text wrapping buttons.[3]
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    Align the table to your preference. Within this same pop-up menu, select the positioning of your table by clicking on “Left,” “Center,” or “Right” underneath the bolded text, “Alignment.” These determine where your table will appear within the wrapped text.

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    Click the “Positioning” button. In the same pop-up menu, click on this button. It will be located either under or to the right of “Text Wrapping.” This new pop-up window gives you further options for text wrapping. There are four categories to manipulate: “Horizontal,” «Vertical,» “Distance from Surrounding Text,” and “Options.” Click «Okay» in the bottom right corner once you are done. We recommend testing out these settings until you get the desired positioning.

    • If you want to reverse a change you made, simply go back to this “Positioning” pop-up menu and revert the setting.
    • This step is completely optional because you have already set up wrap text by using the “Around” button.
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    Move the table. Once you have the settings you want, click the “Okay” button in the lower right corner of the pop-up menu. Now just click on the square icon in the upper left corner of the table to move it. You should now be able to see the wrap text effects!

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    Unwrap text (optional). To reverse these changes, go back to «Layout,» then «Properties,» then «Table» (if applicable). In this pop-up window, click the «None» button located to the left of «Around.» After you click «Okay» in the lower right corner of the pop-up window, your text should be unwrapped.

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As we know, the contents of a table can change its structure or dimensions. So, there can be several difficulties with table cells. For example, long words in a table cell may cause the cell width to increase, or long words may cross the cell borders. But you can avoid these by using word wrapping on the cell content.

In this snippet, we suggest two methods: either using the CSS word-wrap or word-break property.

Use the border-collapse property set to «collapse» and table-layout property set to «fixed» on the <table> element. Also, specify the width of the table. Then, set the word-wrap property to its «break-word» value for <td> elements and add border and width to them.

Example of wrapping the content of a table cell with the word-wrap property:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      table {
        border-collapse: collapse;
        table-layout: fixed;
        width: 310px;
      }
      table td {
        border: solid 1px #666;
        width: 110px;
        word-wrap: break-word;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <table>
      <tr>
        <td>1</td>
        <td>What is Lorem Ipsum?</td>
        <td>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>2</td>
        <td>Why do we use it?</td>
        <td>It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>

If you want to wrap a word on a new line, use the word-wrap property, but if you need to break it at any appropriate character, use the word-break property.

Here, we set the margin-left and margin-right properties to «auto» for the <table>, use the «fixed» value of the table-layout property and specify the border-spacing and width of the table. For <td> elements, add the border property and set the word-break to its «break-all» value.

Example of wrapping the content of a table cell with the word-break property:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      table {
        border-spacing: 0px;
        table-layout: fixed;
        margin-left: auto;
        margin-right: auto;
        width: 310px;
      }
      td {
        border: 1px solid #666;
        word-break: break-all;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <table>
      <tr>
        <td>1</td>
        <td>What is Lorem Ipsum?</td>
        <td>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>2</td>
        <td>Why do we use it?</td>
        <td>It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>

I’ve been using word-wrap: break-word to wrap text in divs and spans. However, it doesn’t seem to work in table cells. I have a table set to width:100%, with one row and two columns. Text in columns, although styled with the above word-wrap, doesn’t wrap. It causes the text to go past the bounds of the cell. This happens on Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Here’s what the source looks like:

td {
  border: 1px solid;
}
<table style="width: 100%;">
  <tr>
    <td>
      <div style="word-wrap: break-word;">
        Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong word
      </div>
    </td>
    <td><span style="display: inline;">Short word</span></td>
  </tr>
</table>

The long word above is larger than the bounds of my page, but it doesn’t break with the above HTML. I’ve tried the suggestions below of adding text-wrap:suppress and text-wrap:normal, but neither helped.

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asked Aug 11, 2009 at 4:01

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The following works for me in Internet Explorer. Note the addition of the table-layout:fixed CSS attribute

td {
  border: 1px solid;
}
<table style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%">
  <tr>
    <td style="word-wrap: break-word">
      LongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongWord
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

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answered Dec 10, 2009 at 20:15

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<td style="word-break:break-all;">longtextwithoutspace</td>

or

<span style="word-break:break-all;">longtextwithoutspace</span>

answered Oct 8, 2009 at 17:01

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You can double-check with Firebug (or similar) that you aren’t accidentally inheriting the following rule:

white-space:nowrap;

This may override your specified line break behaviour and thus break the word wrapping. (Comments by shane lee and Beer Me.) To fix that issue, you can add white-space:normal; to the style.

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answered Aug 11, 2009 at 5:00

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Turns out there’s no good way of doing this. The closest I came is adding «overflow:hidden;» to the div around the table and losing the text.
The real solution seems to be to ditch table though. Using divs and relative positioning I was able to achieve the same effect, minus the legacy of <table>

2015 UPDATE: This is for those like me who want this answer. After 6 years, this works, thanks to all the contributors.

* { /* this works for all but td */
  word-wrap:break-word;
}

table { /* this somehow makes it work for td */
  table-layout:fixed;
  width:100%;
}

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answered Aug 12, 2009 at 0:08

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As mentioned, putting the text within div almost works. You just have to specify the width of the div, which is fortunate for layouts which are static.

This works on FF 3.6, IE 8, Chrome.

<td>
  <div style="width: 442px; word-wrap: break-word">
    <!-- Long Content Here-->
  </div>
</td>

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answered Apr 10, 2011 at 5:14

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Workaround that uses overflow-wrap and works fine with normal table layout + table width 100%

https://jsfiddle.net/krf0v6pw/

HTML

<table>
  <tr>
    <td class="overflow-wrap-hack">
      <div class="content">
        wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
      </div>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

CSS

.content{
  word-wrap:break-word; /*old browsers*/
  overflow-wrap:break-word;
}

table{
  width:100%; /*must be set (to any value)*/
}

.overflow-wrap-hack{
  max-width:1px;
}

Benefits:

  • Uses overflow-wrap:break-word instead of word-break:break-all. Which is better because it tries to break on spaces first, and cuts the word off only if the word is bigger than it’s container.
  • No table-layout:fixed needed. Use your regular auto-sizing.
  • Not needed to define fixed width or fixed max-width in pixels. Define % of the parent if needed.

Tested in FF57, Chrome62, IE11, Safari11

answered Nov 23, 2017 at 11:39

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Problem with

<td style="word-break:break-all;">longtextwithoutspace</td>

is that it will work not so good when text has some spaces, e.g.

<td style="word-break:break-all;">long text with andthenlongerwithoutspaces</td>

If word andthenlongerwithoutspaces fits into table cell in one line but long text with andthenlongerwithoutspaces does not, the long word will be broken in two, instead of being wrapped.

Alternative solution: insert U+200B (ZWSP), U+00AD (soft hyphen)
or U+200C (ZWNJ) in every long word after every, say, 20th character (however, see warning below):

td {
  border: 1px solid;
}
<table style="width: 100%;">
  <tr>
    <td>
      <div style="word-wrap: break-word;">
        Looooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooong word
      </div>
    </td>
    <td><span style="display: inline;">Short word</span></td>
  </tr>
</table>

Warning: inserting additional, zero-length characters does not affect reading. However, it does affect text copied into clipboard (these characters are of course copied as well). If the clipboard text is later used in some search function in the web app… search is going to be broken. Although this solution can be seen in some well known web applications, avoid if possible.

Warning: when inserting additional characters, you should not separate multiple code points within grapheme. See https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries for more info.

answered Feb 3, 2011 at 9:57

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Change your code

word-wrap: break-word;

to

word-break:break-all;

Example

<table style="width: 100%;">
  <tr>
    <td>
      <div style="word-break:break-all;">longtextwithoutspacelongtextwithoutspace Long Content, Long Content, Long Content, Long Content, Long Content, Long Content, Long Content, Long Content, Long Content, Long Content</div>
    </td>
    <td><span style="display: inline;">Short Content</span>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

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answered Apr 12, 2016 at 2:39

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Check out this demo

   <table style="width: 100%;">
    <tr>
        <td><div style="word-break:break-all;">LongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWordLongWord</div>
        </td>
        <td>
            <span style="display: inline;">Foo</span>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Here is the link to read

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answered Aug 12, 2011 at 6:21

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Tested in IE 8 and Chrome 13.

<table style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%">
    <tr>
        <td>
              <div style="word-wrap: break-word;">
                 longtexthere
              </div>
        </td>
        <td><span style="display: inline;">Foo</span></td>
    </tr>
</table>

This causes the table to fit the width of the page and each column to take up 50% of the width.

If you prefer the first column to take up more of the page, add a width: 80% to the td as in the following example, replacing 80% with the percentage of your choice.

<table style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%">
    <tr>
        <td style="width:80%">
               <div style="word-wrap: break-word;">
                 longtexthere
               </div>
            </td>
        <td><span style="display: inline;">Foo</span></td>
    </tr>
</table>

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answered Aug 15, 2011 at 20:23

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The only thing that needs to be done is add width to the <td> or the <div> inside the <td> depending on the layout you want to achieve.

eg:

<table style="width: 100%;" border="1"><tr>
<td><div style="word-wrap: break-word; width: 100px;">looooooooooodasdsdaasdasdasddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddasdasdasdsadng word</div></td>
<td><span style="display: inline;">Foo</span></td>
</tr></table>

or

 <table style="width: 100%;" border="1"><tr>
    <td width="100" ><div style="word-wrap: break-word; ">looooooooooodasdsdaasdasdasddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddasdasdasdsadng word</div></td>
    <td><span style="display: inline;">Foo</span></td>

</tr></table>

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answered Aug 16, 2011 at 8:24

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It appears you need to set word-wrap:break-word; on a block element (div), with specified (non relative) width. Ex:

<table style="width: 100%;"><tr>
    <td><div style="display:block; word-wrap: break-word; width: 40em;">loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong word</div></td>
    <td><span style="display: inline;">Foo</span></td>
</tr></table>

or using word-break:break-all per Abhishek Simon’s suggestion.

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answered Aug 24, 2011 at 5:51

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The answer that won the bounty is correct, but it doesn’t work if the first row of the table has a merged/joined cell (all the cells get equal width).

In this case you should use the colgroup and col tags to display it properly:

<table style="table-layout: fixed; width: 200px">
<colgroup>
    <col style="width: 30%;">
    <col style="width: 70%;">
</colgroup>
<tr>
    <td colspan="2">Merged cell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td style="word-wrap: break-word">VeryLongWordInThisCell</td>
    <td style="word-wrap: break-word">Cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>

answered Jan 11, 2013 at 7:15

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<p style="overflow:hidden; width:200px; word-wrap:break-word;">longtexthere<p>

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answered Jun 1, 2011 at 9:44

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i tried all but in my case just work for me

white-space: pre-wrap;
word-wrap: break-word;

answered Sep 6, 2020 at 10:34

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I ran into a similar problem. I had a table inside a Bootstrap modal in an AngularJS application. When I changed the filter on the table and long values appeared in the cell in question, the text would overflow outside the cell, and outside the modal. This CSS ended up fixing the problem, applied to the TD:

style="white-space:pre-wrap; word-break:break-word"

That made the values wrap properly even across changes to the table content.

answered Jan 21, 2022 at 13:40

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This works for me:

<style type="text/css">
    td {

        /* CSS 3 */
        white-space: -o-pre-wrap;
        word-wrap: break-word;
        white-space: pre-wrap;
        white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;
        white-space: -pre-wrap;
    }

And table attribute is:

   table {
      table-layout: fixed;
      width: 100%
   }

</style>

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answered May 20, 2014 at 13:22

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If you do not need a table border, apply this:

table{
    table-layout:fixed;
    border-collapse:collapse;
}
td{
    word-wrap: break-word;
}

answered Dec 11, 2015 at 13:43

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Common confusing issue here is that we have 2 different css properties: word-wrap and word-break.
Then on top of that, word-wrap has an option called break-word.. Easy to mix-up :-)

Usually this worked for me, even inside a table:
word-break: break-word;

answered Sep 7, 2020 at 5:25

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this might help,

css

.wrap-me{
  word-break: break-all !important;
}
<table>
    <thead>
    <tr>
        <td>Col 1</td>
        <td>Col 2</td>
        <td>Col 3</td>
        <td>Col 4</td>
        <td>Col 5</td>
        <td>Col 6</td>
        <td>Col 7</td>
    </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
    <tr>            <td class="wrap-me">tesetonlywithoutspacetesetonlywithoutspacetesetonlywithoutspace</td>
        <td class="wrap-me">test only</td>
        <td class="wrap-me">test with space long text</td>
        <td class="wrap-me">Col 4</td>
        <td class="wrap-me">Col 5</td>
        <td class="wrap-me">Col 6</td>
        <td class="wrap-me">Col 7</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>            
        <td class="wrap-me">test only</td>
        <td class="wrap-me">test only</td>
        <td class="wrap-me">test with space long text</td>
        <td class="wrap-me">testwithoutspacetestonlylongtext</td>
        <td class="wrap-me">Col 5</td>
        <td class="wrap-me">Col 6</td>
        <td class="wrap-me">Col 7</td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

answered Jun 29, 2021 at 13:42

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I found a solution that seems to work in Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 7-9. For doing a two-column table layout with long text on the one side. I searched all over for similar problem, and what worked in one browser broke the other, or adding more tags to a table just seems like bad coding.

I did NOT use a table for this. DL DT DD to the rescue. At least for fixing a two-column layout, that is basically a glossary/dictionary/word-meaning setup.

And some generic styling.

    dl {
        margin-bottom:50px;
    }

    dl dt {
        background:#ccc;
        color:#fff;
        float:left;
        font-weight:bold;
        margin-right:10px;
        padding:5px;
        width:100px;
    }

    dl dd {
        margin:2px 0;
        padding:5px 0;
        word-wrap:break-word;
        margin-left:120px;
    }
<dl>
    <dt>test1</dt>
    <dd>Fusce ultricies mi nec orci tempor sit amet</dd>
    <dt>test2</dt>
    <dd>Fusce ultricies</dd>
    <dt>longest</dt>
    <dd>
        Loremipsumdolorsitametconsecteturadipingemipsumdolorsitametconsecteturaelit.Nulla
        laoreet ante et turpis vulputate condimentum. In in elit nisl. Fusce ultricies
        mi nec orci tempor sit amet luctus dui convallis. Fusce viverra rutrum ipsum,
        in sagittis eros elementum eget. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora
        torquent per conubia nostra, per.
    </dd>
</dl>

Using floating word-wrap and margin left, I got exactly what I needed. Just thought I’d share this with others, maybe it will help someone else with a two-column definition style layout, with trouble getting the words to wrap.

I tried using word-wrap in the table cell, but it only worked in Internet Explorer 9, (and Firefox and Google Chrome of course) mainly trying to fix the broken Internet Explorer browser here.

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answered Feb 3, 2012 at 15:35

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i have same issue this work fine for me

 <style> 
      td{
            word-break: break-word;
      }
    </style>
    <table style="width: 100%;">
      <tr>
<td>Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong word</td>
        <td><span style="display: inline;">Short word</span></td>
      </tr>
    </table>

answered Jul 31, 2020 at 14:01

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Tables wrap by default, so make sure the display of the table cells are table-cell:

td {
   display: table-cell;
}

answered Aug 11, 2009 at 4:10

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style=»table-layout:fixed; width:98%; word-wrap:break-word»

<table bgcolor="white" id="dis" style="table-layout:fixed; width:98%; word-wrap:break-word" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolordark="white" bordercolorlight="white" >

Demo — http://jsfiddle.net/Ne4BR/749/

This worked great for me. I had long links that would cause the table to exceed 100% on web browsers.
Tested on IE, Chrome, Android and Safari.

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answered Oct 1, 2014 at 18:37

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A solution which work with Google Chrome and Firefox (not tested with Internet Explorer) is to set display: table-cell as a block element.

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answered Oct 10, 2011 at 12:53

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You can try this if it suits you…

Put a textarea inside your td and disable it with background color white and define its number of rows.

<table style="width: 100%;">
  <tr>
    <td>
        <textarea rows="4" style="background-color:white;border: none;" disabled>      Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong word
      </textarea>
    </td>
    <td><span style="display: inline;">Short word</span></td>
  </tr>
</table>

answered Jan 29, 2020 at 6:21

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Just add width. This worked for me.

     <td style="width:10%;"><strong>Item Name</strong></td>

answered Aug 18, 2020 at 9:06

Lawrence Njenga's user avatar

If you only care about text, you can do it without table-layout:fixed

<table>
<tr>
  <td>
    Title
  </td>
  <td>
    Length
  </td>
  <td>
    Action
  </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
  <td>
    Long song name
  </td>
  <td>
    3:11
  </td>
  <td>
    <button>
    Buy Now!
    </button>
  </td>
  
</tr>

<tr>
  <td  colspan=3>
    <div style='width:200px;background-color:lime;margin-left:20px'>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>quick </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>brown </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>foxed </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>jumped </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>over </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>

      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>lazy </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>brown </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>cat </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>

      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>
      <div style='float:left;white-space:pre'>the </div>
    
    </div>
    
  </td>
</tr>


  <tr>
  <td>
    Long song name1
  </td>
  <td>
    2:20
  </td>
  <td>
    <button>
    Buy Now!
    </button>
  </td>
  
</tr>


</table>

answered May 11, 2021 at 21:35

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In my case, i had to use a combination of both word break and white space pre-wrap to achieve best results. Hope it helps many more.

<td class="wrap-longtext">
   long,longlonglonglonglonglonglong..................
</td>

<style>    
  .wrap-longtext
  {
    word-break: break-all;/* Use break-word, if you prefer sensible text than short width of the cell */
    white-space: pre-wrap;
  }
</style>

answered Dec 21, 2022 at 22:17

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It seems like you’re experiencing issues with word wrapping in table cells even when using the word-wrap: break-word; CSS property. One possible reason for this is that the table element has its own layout rules that may override the properties you’re setting on individual cells.

To fix this issue, you can try setting the table-layout property of the table element to fixed, which will force the table cells to have a fixed width and height, and allow word-wrap to work properly.

Here’s an updated version of your code with the table-layout property added:

<style>
  td {
    border: 1px solid;
  }
  table {
    width: 100%;
    table-layout: fixed; /* Add this line */
  }
</style>
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <div style="word-wrap: break-word;">
    Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong word
  </div>
</td>
<td>
  <span style="display: inline;">Short word</span>
</td>

sorry if the code isnt very well indented

answered Apr 3 at 22:48

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I noticed that I have two tables in my word document. One I made and one I copied it from somewhere. The one I copied, when I resize my table, the cell text automatically wraps around if the width is not enough. (Not hyphenation, just wraps). The one I copied does not do that. However, I don’t notice anything different between the two. The row size specifications in both are unchecked. Where is the setting for this?

asked Feb 9, 2012 at 10:37

huggie's user avatar

4

Right-click on the cell. Choose «Auto-Fit» and then choose «Fixed column width».

answered Jul 16, 2015 at 13:07

Kathie's user avatar

One possible explanation for the apparent non-wrapping behavior is that the text is actually wrapping, but the formatting of the cell has a margin outside of the cell boundaries. In the example below, the two columns are equal width and contain the same text, but the text on the right has a paragraph right indent outside the table boundary (see ruler bar mark after the 7). You would highlight the cell text and manually move the indent back within the cell margins or apply a style that overwrites the right indent.

Cell paragraph example

answered Mar 14, 2017 at 21:24

I managed to resolve this by changing the paragraph’s right indentation from blank to 0.

answered Oct 21, 2021 at 20:31

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  • Hello!

    I have a Word document with a table which is filled with some data. The problem is that I get a
    blank character between words instead of symbol of wrapping.

    what i get:

     1

     199950

    line 1 line 2 line3

    what I need:

     1

     199950

    line 1

    line 2

    line 3

    I use

    TableCell cell = row.Elements<TableCell>().ElementAt(column-1);

    cell.Append(new
    Paragraph(new
    DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.
    Run(new
    DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.
    Text(text))));

    to fill a cell.

    How can I make the text wrapping active for a cell?

Answers

  • Hello Elena,

    Thank you for posting and we are glad to help with you.

    After reading your post I knew your requirement, then I did some research about this. Following were my steps:

    1. I created a word document and insert a 1 X 3 table and put the data what you provided, and insert two Text Wrappings in the cell 3.

    2. I looked into the document.xml and got some ideas about this.

    I think it may need to insert Break which type is Text Wrappings, and the code is just like this:

          Run run4 = new Run();
          Break break1 = new Break(){ Type = BreakValues.TextWrapping, Clear = BreakTextRestartLocationValues.All };
          Text text4 = new Text();
          text4.Text = "line2";
    
          run4.Append(break1);
          run4.Append(text4);
    
    
    

    I am not very experienced at open xml, I hope it can help you more or less and feel free to follow up after you have tried.

    Best Regards,


    Bruce Song [MSFT]
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