Use the wbr tags to represent path
Written byPhuoc Nguyen
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23 Feb, 2021
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A browser might break a long text at unexpected places. For example, the specific path (
`/this/is/.../folder`) in the following text is placed at the second line:shell
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
| Copy file to the folder: |
| /this/is/a/very/long/path/to/the/destination/folder |
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘To prevent this behavior, HTML5 provides the
`<wbr>` element. It stands for Word Break Opportunity, and is used to specify the positions that a line break would be created.Getting back to the example above. If we use
`<wbr>` elements right before each path separator (`\`) as follow:html
Copy your file to the folder: <wbr />/this <wbr />/is <wbr />/a ... <wbr />/destination <wbr />/folderThe browser will break the paths in between the directory names:
shell
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
| Copy your file to the folder: /this/is/a/very/long |
| /path/to/the/destination/folder |
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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