CSS: white-space: nowrap does not seems to work in IE - html

Question

Here is the jsfiddle of the below code. http://jsfiddle.net/ux4DD/. What I want is the name Harry Pham to be in one line, so I make the width very small and do white-space:nowrap. It work on Firefox, but not IE. Help please
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 450px;">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td style="width:20px;border-top:1px solid gray;white-space: nowrap;"><span class="linkColor">Harry Pham</span>
</td>
<td style="height:15px;background:url('images/line.png') no-repeat;width:28px;" width="35px"></td>
<td style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" width="auto"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Answer 1

For IE 6 and 7 you need to wrap your text with a <span> tag and give it a white-space property. Since you already have a <span> tag wrapped around your text and you have a class for it, just add the white-space property to your <span> class .linkColor.
.linkColor{
white-space:nowrap;
}
Check working example at http://jsfiddle.net/ux4DD/1/

Answer 2

Hope this will be helpful:
var buttons = document.getElementsByTagName('button');
for(var j=0; j < buttons.length; j++) {
var button = buttons[j];
var textNode = button;
while(textNode.children[0]) {
textNode = textNode.children[0];
}
var text, words, numSplits;
var spacing = 0;
while(button.scrollWidth !== 0 && button.clientWidth !== 0 &&
button.scrollWidth > button.clientWidth) {
if(!spacing) {
text = textNode.innerHTML;
words = text.split(' ');
numSplits = Math.ceil(button.scrollWidth / button.clientWidth);
spacing = Math.round((words.length)/numSplits);
}
for(var i = spacing; i < words.length; i+=spacing+1) {
words.splice(i , 0, '<br />');
}
textNode.innerHTML = words.join(' ');
spacing--;
words = text.split(' ');
}
}
Ref: Word wrapping for button with specified width in ie7?