HTML Tutorial: Line Breaks and Hyphenation

 

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Line Breaks and Hyphenation

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Line breaks in HTML text

In the text below, most browsers will only allow a line break where the white space appears after the character z. However, some browsers, such as Opera, will allow a line break after the exclamation point (!, !), slash (/, /) and question mark (?, ?) characters also.

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