Re: What to use instead of NOBR

by "Kevin Bayley" <webmaster(at)prairienorth.com>

Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:47:08 -0600
To:	"Complex" <complex_hwg(at)yahoo.com>, <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
References:	yahoo
	todo: View Thread, Original

Use &nbsp;
- - -
Kevin Bayley
Web Developer
Prairie North Internet
http://www.prairienorth.com/
Member > HTML Writers Guild
Member > International Webmasters
                 Association
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Complex" <complex_hwg(at)yahoo.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 5:52 PM
Subject: What to use instead of NOBR


> In my horizontal menus, I like using the nobreak tag (<.nobr>) to keep
> together the multiple words of a category title. It appears to work
> well in IE and Netscape.
> 
> Unfortunately, the NOBR tag does not validate. My (aging) HTML book
> lists it as a Netscape-only tag, which I guess IE picked up and W3C
> didn't.
> 
> Can anyone tell me of a valid way to prevent these words from breaking
> across multiple lines? Have I overlooked a style that will do this?
> (Hopefuly a broadly-supported style.)
> 
> I can, of course, use it anyway, but I'm hoping to make the
> validation-snobs as happy as possible.
> 
> Many thanks,
> complex
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games
> http://sports.yahoo.com
>

HWG hwg-techniques mailing list archives, maintained by Webmasters @ IWA