How can I insert multiple spaces between words in a div but still make it word wrap?
You can use the CSS property white-space: pre-wrap; to indicate to the browser that the contents of the element are pre-formatted (so should consider the whitespace significant and not remove it) and still line wrap.
div {
font-size: 26px;
white-space: pre-wrap;
}
<div>This is text with spaces that wraps.</div>
If you need it for all of the words in the <div> or if there's a good reason to put a <span> or something around the words you do need it for you could also try the css property word-spacing.
selector {
word-spacing: /*some length depending on your font*/
}
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I'm trying to put a link called Submit resume in a menu using a li tag. Because of the whitespace between the two words it wraps to two lines. How to prevent this wrapping with CSS?
Use white-space: nowrap;[1] [2] or give that link more space by setting li's width to greater values.
[1] § 3. White Space and Wrapping: the white-space property - W3 CSS Text Module Level 3
[2] white-space - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
You could add this little snippet of code to add a nice "…" to the ending of the line if the content is to large to fit on one line:
li {
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
}
If you want to achieve this selectively (ie: only to that particular link), you can use a non-breaking space instead of a normal space:
<li>submit resume</li>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space#Encodings
edit: I understand that this is HTML, not CSS as requested by the OP, but some may find it helpful…
display: inline-block; will prevent break between the words in a list item:
li {
display: inline-block;
}
Bootstrap 4 has a class named text-nowrap. It is just what you need.
In your CSS, white-space can do the job
possible values:
white-space: nowrap
white-space: pre
white-space: pre-wrap
white-space: pre-line
white-space: break-spaces
white-space: normal
I'm trying to set background color for a whitespace within a span. But it won't show up when the whitespace span happens to be at the point when line wraps.
HTML
asdfghjklkqowbvaa<span> </span>a
CSS
body {
font-family: monospace;
font-size: 40px;
}
span {
background-color: black;
}
JSFIDDLE
Alter your css for the span to show white spaces, just like in the <pre> tag.
Take a look at the different white-space options
span {
background-color: black;
white-space:pre;
}
From the mentioned resource here is a nice table what the different options for white-space will do:
New lines Spaces and tabs Text wrapping
normal Collapse Collapse Wrap
pre Preserve Preserve No wrap
nowrap Collapse Collapse No wrap
pre-wrap Preserve Preserve Wrap
pre-line Preserve Collapse Wrap
If you add a to your span, the string will not break anymore on your space but instead 'glue' the two parts together, without wrapping the string on the space.
Another option if you do not want to rely on CSS for any reason is using the non-breaking space: , or
(see here for more information about it)
I have a problem thats kinda driving me nuts. I have an article container and within are several paragraphs. The first paragraph contains a drop cap. This first paragraph does not use text-indent, however every following paragraph does.
When I begin a new paragraph following a h3-header, I don't want any text-indent. Fine, I can get this to work (blue text in example).
My problem is this, when I begin a new paragraph with a header (strong followed by a break), this line will use the text-indent of the paragraph, and I don't want it to. I must have the strong tags inside the paragraph (as one should), not outside.
I'm thinking of a way to select all paragraphs that start with a strong tag. I don't want to use any javascript to solve this. I want to change the text-indent of the paragraph, not the position of the strong text.
I've made a jsFiddle here. I have tried something like this:
p>strong {
color:#f0f;
text-indent: 0 !important;
}
You can add a negative margin to the strong tag, though I assume you'll want a specific class on it.
strong.subhead {
margin-left: -3em;
}
Working example at: http://jsfiddle.net/J5C86/2/
However, this is also assuming you don't want the paragraph associated with the strong tag indented. If you're looking for the paragraph under the subheading to be indented as well, you'll need another tag on the first word or letter after the br.
span.subhead-indent {
margin-left: 3em;
}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/J5C86/4/
To expand on my comment on your question:
If there's a reason you can't use <h4> - which would be the more suitable tag here - you can simply add a negative margin to your <strong> element:
p > strong:first-child {
margin-left:-3em;
}
JSFiddle example.
Otherwise, use <h4> instead:
<h4>Strong sub header</h4>
<p>Aliquam semper placerat urna...</p>
h3+p, h4+p {
text-indent:0;
margin-top: 0;
padding-top: 0;
}
h3+p {
color:#00f;
}
JSFiddle example with <h4>.
It works for me. Use this:
p>strong {
text-indent: 0 !important;
color: #f0f;
display: block;
}
After doing this, Remove the br tag at the last of p>strong.
Demo
I saw your problem and found that you have not included your paragraph within the h3 tag, so define your css with your strong paragraph with a class for eg.
<p class="no-indent"><strong>Strong Sub Header</strong></p>
define your css this must work.
I have several paragraphs that I would like to indent, although only the first lines of these paragraphs.
How would I target just the first lines using CSS or HTML?
Use the text-indent property.
p {
text-indent: 30px;
}
jsFiddle.
In addition to text-indent, you can use the :first-line selector if you wish to apply additional styles.
p:first-line {
color:red;
}
p {
text-indent:40px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/Madmartigan/d4aCA/1/
Very simple using css:
p {
text-indent:10px;
}
Will create an indentation of 10 pixels in every paragraph.
Others have mentioned the best way to implement this via CSS, however if you need a quick fix with inline formatting, simply use the following code:
<p style="text-indent: 40px">This text is indented.</p>
Source: https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001034.htm
I was also having a problem getting the first line of a paragraph (only the first line) to indent and was trying the following code:
p::first-line { text-indent: 30px; }
This did not work. So, I created a class in my CSS and used it in my html as follows:
in CSS:
.indent { text-indent: 30px; }
in html:
<p class="indent"> paragraph text </p>
This worked like a charm. I still don't know why the first code example did not work and I did make sure that the text was not aligned.
Here you go:
p:first-line {
text-indent:30px;
}
Didn't see a clear answer for a CSS newbie, so here's an easy one.
first indent all lines (1), than outdent the first line (2)
padding-left: 0.4em /* (1) */
text-indent: -0.4em /* (2) */
I ran into the same issue only I had multiple <p> tags I had to work with. Using the "text-indent" property wanted to indent ALL of the <p> tags and that's not what I wanted.
I wanted to add a fancy quote image to a list of testimonials, with the css background based image at the very beginning of each quote and the text sitting to the right of the image. Since text-indent was causing all subsequent paragraphs to indent, not just the very first paragraph, I had to do a bit of a workaround. The same method applies if you aren't looking to do an image though.
I accomplished this by first adding an empty div to the beginning of the paragraph I wanted indented. Next I applied a small width and height to it to create the invisible box and finally applied a left float to make it flow inline with the text. If you are using this for an image, make sure to add a margin to the right or make your width a bit wider for some white space.
Here's an example with the CSS inline. You can easily just create a class and add it to your CSS file:
<div style="height: 25px; width: 25px; float: left;"></div>
<p>First Paragraph</p>
<p>Second Paragraph</p>
I'm trying to put a link called Submit resume in a menu using a li tag. Because of the whitespace between the two words it wraps to two lines. How to prevent this wrapping with CSS?
Use white-space: nowrap;[1] [2] or give that link more space by setting li's width to greater values.
[1] § 3. White Space and Wrapping: the white-space property - W3 CSS Text Module Level 3
[2] white-space - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
You could add this little snippet of code to add a nice "…" to the ending of the line if the content is to large to fit on one line:
li {
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
}
If you want to achieve this selectively (ie: only to that particular link), you can use a non-breaking space instead of a normal space:
<li>submit resume</li>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space#Encodings
edit: I understand that this is HTML, not CSS as requested by the OP, but some may find it helpful…
display: inline-block; will prevent break between the words in a list item:
li {
display: inline-block;
}
Bootstrap 4 has a class named text-nowrap. It is just what you need.
In your CSS, white-space can do the job
possible values:
white-space: nowrap
white-space: pre
white-space: pre-wrap
white-space: pre-line
white-space: break-spaces
white-space: normal