Stop word-wrap dividing words

body { word-wrap: break-word;}

I've been using that code (above) to fit the text in the body into it's container. However what I don't like about it, is that it breaks up words.

Is there another way where it will not break up words and only line break after or before a word?

EDIT: This is for use within a UIWebView.

use white-space: nowrap;. If you have set width on the element on which you are setting this it should work.

update - rendered data in Firefox

May be a bit late but you can add this css to stop word breaks:

.element {
    -webkit-hyphens: none;
    -moz-hyphens:    none;
    -ms-hyphens:     none;
    hyphens:         none;
}

Please use nowrap and wrap value didn't come for me. nowrap solved the issue.

white-space: nowrap;

I had the same problem, I solved it using following css:

.className {
  white-space:pre-wrap;
  word-break:break-word;
}

You can try this...

body{
white-space: pre; /* CSS2 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla */
white-space: -hp-pre-wrap; /* HP printers */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: pre-wrap; /* CSS 2.1 */
white-space: pre-line; /* CSS 3 (and 2.1 as well, actually) */
word-wrap: break-word; /* IE */
}

{word-wrap:;} is an IE proprietary property, and not a part of css. firefox's handling is correct. Unfortunately, FF does not support a soft hyphen / . so that's not an option. You could possibly insert a hair or thin space,  /  (check me on the numeric entity) and  / , respectively.

Making {overflow: hidden;} would cut the overflow off, and {overflow: auto;} would cause the overflow to enable scrolling.