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CSS

Alex Weinberg
Alex Weinberg
2,726 Points
Posted by Alex Weinberg
Alex Weinberg
2,726 Points

Make text fit parent container...

I'm wondering what the best way to do this is. Say I have a paragraph, and I want the text to stay within the element and not overflow. If the element resizes when I change the browser window size, I'd like the text to break at different points to fit within it. The only way I can figure out how to do this is word-wrap:break-word; but I'd like it to not break up any of the words. Is this possible?

1 Answer

Sarah Hoopes
Sarah Hoopes
6,304 Points
Sarah Hoopes
Sarah Hoopes
6,304 Points

You could try the overflow property. This page does a good job of explaining it: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_pos_overflow.asp

overflow: auto;

provides scroll bars if the content overflows.