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Css: overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; Differences

Is there any difference (apart from browser support) in terms of behavior between the following css properties?

overflow-wrap: break-word;

and

word-wrap: break-word;

Perhaps word-wrap property has been just renamed to overflow-wrap in the current draft of the CSS3 Text specification?

I tried both on Chrome and seems to work in exact same way.

Am I correct or I'm missing something? Which one do I have to use?

Solution

  • There is no difference between the two. overflow-wrap is the same as word-wrap. As you pointed out, word-wrap was renamed to overflow-wrap as this Post shows.