User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 The browser doesn't hyphenate. Example: blablablabla/blablablablablablablabla will make tables and divs stretch, when these are more narrow than the width of a (non-hyphenated) piece of text. Makes layout almost impossible. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a html-table or div with a width 2. enter a very long word, or for instance a long url 3. watch the table or div stretch Expected Results: Hypenate

I'm not sure, but isn't this exactly the way HTML is supposed to work?

Nope, html is not supposed to work like that. Example: A page has a left column containing a menu. Lets say the column has a width of 140px, set by css:width and perhaps even css:max-width (or just plain old [deprecated] html attributes). If suddenly a very long word, like the name of a welsh village ;o), appears in the menu, the column will - displayed in Mozilla - stretch beyond the desired width, because Mozilla can't figure out to hyphenate the 'mother. Whereas displayed in the (in so many other ways very faulty) IE, the word wil be hyphenated, thus leaving the width of the column unharmed. The problem may seem exotic and irrelevant if you don't work professionally with visual design, but if you do, it's a major partykiller.

This is already filed. Please find the original and mark this duplicate.

Maybe there's a dupe, but I didn't find it. Sorry if I ruined somebody's day.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218580 ***