files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/wbr/index.md
The <wbr> HTML element represents a word break opportunity—a position within text where the browser may optionally break a line, though its line-breaking rules would not otherwise create a break at that location.
{{InteractiveExample("HTML Demo: <wbr>", "tabbed-shorter")}}
<div id="example-paragraphs">
<p>Fernstraßenbauprivatfinanzierungsgesetz</p>
<p>Fernstraßen<wbr />bau<wbr />privat<wbr />finanzierungs<wbr />gesetz</p>
<p>Fernstraßen­bau­privat­finanzierungs­gesetz</p>
</div>
#example-paragraphs {
background-color: white;
overflow: hidden;
resize: horizontal;
width: 9rem;
border: 2px dashed #999999;
}
This element only includes the global attributes.
On UTF-8 encoded pages, <wbr> behaves like the U+200B ZERO-WIDTH SPACE code point. In particular, it behaves like a Unicode bidi BN code point, meaning it has no effect on {{Glossary("bidi")}}-ordering: <div dir=rtl>123,<wbr>456</div> displays, when not broken on two lines, 123,456 and not 456,123.
For the same reason, the <wbr> element does not introduce a hyphen at the line break point. To make a hyphen appear only at the end of a line, use the soft hyphen character entity (­) instead.
The Yahoo Style Guide recommends breaking a URL before punctuation, to avoid leaving a punctuation mark at the end of the line, which the reader might mistake for the end of the URL.
<p>
http://this<wbr />.is<wbr />.a<wbr />.really<wbr />.long<wbr />.example<wbr />.com/With<wbr />/deeper<wbr />/level<wbr />/pages<wbr />/deeper<wbr />/level<wbr />/pages<wbr />/deeper<wbr />/level<wbr />/pages<wbr />/deeper<wbr />/level<wbr />/pages<wbr />/deeper<wbr />/level<wbr />/pages
</p>
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