Title: hyphens
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# hyphens

 *  Resolved [Jerry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerard749/)
 * (@gerard749)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyphens/)
 * When content on a page has a hyphen (Mon-Tue) and reaches the end of a line, 
   in IE, Chrome and Safari the hyphen breaks and Tue drops to the next line. In
   firefox the hyphen does not break and Mon-Tue drops to the next line.
 * I uninstalled and reinstalled firefox and that did not make a difference.
 * In Css I tried numerous ways of trying to get the hyphen to break – word wrap,
   overflow wrap, word break … In one test using the word some-thing I tried word
   break normal and the hyphen didn’t break, and then when I put word break break
   word in css it broke like this:
    some-thin g
 * Also, in content when I add spaces between words the white spaces do not collasp.
   It’s what I want, but I don’t know why its happening.
 * Any help would be appreciated.
 * Jerry
 * Jerry

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 *  Thread Starter [Jerry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerard749/)
 * (@gerard749)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyphens/#post-5613214)
 * Hi,
 * firefox will break a hyphened word by default at the end of a line, but will 
   not leave 4 or less characters on the previous line. It will instead drop the
   hyphened word to the next line.
 * Jerry

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