nobr tag

fidokomik

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Jul 4, 2008, 8:53:53 AM7/4/08

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I tried to ask in other group but without answer so I try to ask again
here.

I found at W3C web that tag is not valid in HTML 4.01
specification.
Can anybody help me to find a way to substitute this tag? For example
central-european date format is "20.01.2008". When I use date in long
paragraph text then I want to avoid to wrap date at dot, so I use some
like

some text here for date 20.01.2008 and some other
text

I tried to use <pre> with style

* pre {font-family: inherit; font-size: ingerit; font-weight:
inherit;}

some text here for date <pre>20.01.2008</pre> and some other text

but this not work in IE6.
Other idea I have is to write dot as . hyphen as - but I don't
know
all characters on which browsers tend to wrap text.
Can anybody help me please?

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Andreas Prilop

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Jul 4, 2008, 10:16:14 AM7/4/08

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On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, fidokomik wrote:

> I tried to ask in other group

Which?

> but without answer so I try to ask again here.

I think <news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html> is better suited.

> I found at W3C web that tag is not valid in HTML 4.01
> specification.
> Can anybody help me to find a way to substitute this tag?

This is discussed in detail at
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/nobr.html

> For example central-european date format is "20.01.2008".

There is no such thing as a "Central European date format".
On the contrary, International Standard ISO 8601 has been
adopted as European Standard EN 28601.
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/iso-date

Your sample date should be written 2008-01-20. To prevent
a line break, you might write the non-breaking hyphen ‑
instead of the ASCII hyphen.

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Chris F.A. Johnson

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Jul 4, 2008, 1:22:40 PM7/4/08

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On 2008-07-04, fidokomik wrote:
> I tried to ask in other group but without answer so I try to ask again
> here.
>
> I found at W3C web that tag is not valid in HTML 4.01
> specification.
> Can anybody help me to find a way to substitute this tag? For example
> central-european date format is "20.01.2008". When I use date in long
> paragraph text then I want to avoid to wrap date at dot, so I use some
> like
>
>some text here for date 20.01.2008 and some other
> text
>
> I tried to use <pre> with style
>
> * pre {font-family: inherit; font-size: ingerit; font-weight:
> inherit;}
>
>some text here for date <pre>20.01.2008</pre> and some other text</
> p>

> but this not work in IE6.
> Other idea I have is to write dot as . hyphen as - but I don't
> know
> all characters on which browsers tend to wrap text.

Use CSS: white-space: nowrap;

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Jukka K. Korpela

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Jul 4, 2008, 3:47:08 PM7/4/08

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Scripsit fidokomik:

> I tried to ask in other group

And now you multiposted. Is there any more cluelessness you could
achieve?

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