James Colannino wrote:
> James Colannino wrote:
>> Hey everyone. I have a bit of a quandary. I have a scroll area
>> implemented with a div box, which itself is inside of a fieldset for a
>> form. I have another div area nested inside of this one with a width of
>> 50%, which should, I assume, make it 50% of the width of the parent div
>> area (the scroll area.)[...]
> 
> So, I have an update.  If the page is loaded with content inside the div
> box, it wraps.  If Javascript adds content to the div box dynamically
> after the page has loaded, the text doesn't wrap.  This happens both in
> Opera and Firefox.
> 
> Weird.  Anybody have any ideas?

Ok, so I have an update.  It turned out that the code I was using was
inserting " "'s in place of true space characters.  The browser
renders them as as spaces, but I guess it's not seen as true whitespace
when the browser decides where to wrap.  Hence, I get one long line with
no true whitespace that can't be wrapped, and I get the horizontal
scrollbar.  I modified the code so that true whitespace was inserted and
that fixed the problem.

Hope this proves to be useful to someone, even if it's found via a
google search years later :)

James
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