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Break long words in html email in outlook 2010

I'm taking end user input and inserting it into an HTML email. But if the end user enters a long URL or really long word, it breaks my HTML layout in Outlook 2010 by extending the column or div beyond the width specified.

In Chrome, Firefox, IE7+, and Safari, I can use style="table-layout:fixed" in order to force the table columns to certain widths. But Outlook 2010 ignores this, and the long word pushes the table width out beyond the fixed width.

With Divs, In Chrome, Firefox, IE7+, and Safari, I can use style="word-wrap:break-word; overflow:hidden; width:100px", to fix the div width. But in Outlook 2010, it pushes the div out beyond the fixed width.

How can I get outlook2010 to wrap the long word, and honor the fixed width?

Here is my sample HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<table width="400" style="table-layout: fixed" border="1">
    <tr>
        <td width="100">
            yo
        </td>
        <td width="300">
            Don't move me
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
<table width="400" style="table-layout: fixed" border="1">
    <tr>
        <td width="100" style="word-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; width: 100px" border="1">
            yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
        </td>
        <td width="300">
            Ya moved me
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
<table width="400" border="1">
    <tr>
        <td width="100">
            <div style="word-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; width: 100px" border="1">
                yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
            </div>
        </td>
        <td width="300">
            Ya moved me
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Solution

  • Use the Microsoft proprietary word-break:break-all;

      <td style="word-break:break-all;">