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Java - openpdf - Break word with hyphen

We are using openpdf 1.3.26 template 2.1 to generate PDF from HTML and CSS. I have a div with the following style

.text-block{
         display:block;
         text-align:justify;
         word-wrap: break-word;
         hyphens: auto;
         width:50px
         
        }
<span lang="de"  class="text-block" >myyyextraaaaaaaaalong text </span>

The hyphens are being added when I try this on my browser, but not the generated PDF.

Solution

  • To me it looks like your PDF processor is limited CSS 2.1. and hyphens is CSS3 property.