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POWhat rules/declarations do I need to add to a CSS class to enable word wrap with no single-word truncation?
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copied!<p>I have a piece of html like this:</p> <pre><code><div id="prizeCategory" class="category">Applications</div> </code></pre> <p>The category CSS class is:</p> <pre><code>.category { display: inline-block; font-family: Consolas, sans-serif; font-size: 2em; color: Orange; max-width: 180px; } </code></pre> <p>I want to keep this section of HTML to a maximum width, and thus enabled word wrap of the <code>#prizeCategory</code> value ("Applications" in the example above), but since I've added a max-width, it gets truncated to "Applicatio"</p> <p>I need the value to word wrap when multiple words, but ignore that max-width and show the complete value if it won't fit otherwise. IOW, a value of "Application" should show the full text of "Application" on one line, but a value of "Applied History" on two lines, as:</p> <pre><code>Applied History </code></pre> <p>IOW, most of the hmtl5 sections will be the same width, but some will be longer to accommodate a long single word as the value of the "prizeCategory" element.</p> <p>I wonder if I will have to count the length of the #prizeCategory element's value each time, and change some properties/use a different class based on that length (kind of like an "internal media query")?</p> <p>jsfiddle is here: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/clayshannon/zhTNS/1/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/clayshannon/zhTNS/1/</a></p>

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