If I put the IE8 browser in quirks mode, it wraps at the whitespace, but if it's in "IE8 Standards Mode", then the wrapping occurs in the middle of words.
I tried looking at the "msWordWrap" style attribute, but chaning it to "'break-word' doesn't seem to make any difference. On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Henry Minsky <[email protected]> wrote: > I just noticed that when I have a multiline text field, the words are > wrapped in a yucky way in IE8; they seem to get > broken not at whitespace boundaries, but at the first letter that goes over > the right margin. > > Example: > > <canvas width="100%" height="80%" debug="true"> > <text name="tview" bgcolor="#cccccc" > multiline="true" width="150" > fontsize="24"> Continental Crackup Adventure Season Of The > Witch</text> > </canvas> > > In IE8/DHTML this displays as > > Continental > Crackup Ad > venture Sea > son Of The > Witch > > Whereas in FFox or Safari it displays as > > Continental > Crackup > Adventure > Season Of > The Witch > > Is there a IE8 CSS setting to control this word wrap behavior? > > > > > -- > Henry Minsky > Software Architect > [email protected] > > > -- Henry Minsky Software Architect [email protected]
