bootstrap responsive table content wrapping

Question

I have HTML similar to this:

    <div class="table-responsive">
         <table class="table borderless">
             <caption>
                  <h3>Announcements</h3>
             </caption>
             <tbody>
                 <tr >
                     <td>                                        
                         If you are waiting for your certificate from your trainer, please contact them. Our turnaround time is between 1-2 months from the time we receive your details from your trainer, which we expect to be at the start of your program. The remainder is dependent upon how quickly your trainer has send in all the required paperwork and made payment, etc.                                       
                     </td>
                 </tr>
             </tbody>
         </table>
     </div>

When I view the output in a small view-port, the table is re-sized properly, but the paragraph content in the table cells are not wrapped, so scroll-bars are shown. I expected the responsive behavior would have been to wrap the paragraph content. How do I achieve this?

Answer 1

I ran across the same issue you did but the above answers did not solve my issue. The only way I was able to resolve it - was to make a class and use specific widths to trigger the wrapping for my specific use case. As an example, I provided a snippet below - but I found you will need to adjust it for the table in question - since I typically use multiple colspans depending on the layout. The reasoning I believe Bootstrap is failing - is because it removes the wrapping constraints to get a full table for the scrollbars. THe colspan must be tripping it up.

<style>
@media (max-width: 768px) { /* use the max to specify at each container level */
    .specifictd {    
        width:360px;  /* adjust to desired wrapping */
        display:table;
        white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */
        white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
        white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
        white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
        word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
    }
}

I hope this helps