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Bug 19649 - "The wbr element represents a line break opportunity" I thought it was a word break. maybe I am wrong.
Summary: "The wbr element represents a line break opportunity" I thought it was a word...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-10-21 05:21 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-01-30 20:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-10-21 05:21:22 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-wbr-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-wbr-element

Comment:
"The wbr element represents a line break opportunity" I thought it was a word
break. maybe I am wrong.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-01-30 20:42:51 UTC 
"wbr" probably stood for "word break" in the mists of time, but what it _does_ is present a line break opportunity.