Non-breaking dash?

[mkrausnick]

Is there such a thing as a "non-breaking" dash, similar to " " for spaces, and if so, what is it?

Thanks,

Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California

 

[Vragabond]

There are en dash (&ndash and em dash (&mdash but I don't know if any of those are non-breaking. I suppose you could control the non-breakingness via css's [tt]white-space: nowrap;[/tt] declaration.

 

[mkrausnick]

Good call.

.nowrap { white-space: nowrap }

does indeed inhibit wrapping on dashes.

Another interesting observation is that in a page with a valid doctype, this behavior (wrapping on dashes) does not occur in Firefox 1.5 but does occur in IE6.

Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California