Word Wrap doesn’t work (other solutions don’t work)

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The wrap is happening like that becuae your themeis telling the site to do it that way.

#content {
	word-break: break-all;
}

The best thing to do is add in some custom CSS to over-ride this. You can do this in the ‘Additional CSS’ tab in your sites Customizer.

#content {
	word-break: normal;
}

The code worked!!!!!

Thank you so much!!!!

Once again, the words are breaking in the middle instead of between words. I tried re-adding the CSS with no luck.

Could someone advise? Please note that I am a complete tyro when it comes to plugins and JetPack, so I would need some n00b-type instructions.

I would really appreciate your help again.

Many thanks.

I can’t see that on your site now. Can you give us an example page where it’s happening?

And… you shouldn’t have to re-enter the CSS unless you, or some part of your site, has removed it for some reason.

On the home page, it’s showing up under ‘recent posts’. Center column.

That’s inherited a wrong setting from a different area. As it’s not part of the #content block, it doesn’t adhere to the same rules.

You’ll need to add in this:

#content,
#leftcolumn {
    word-break: normal;
}

Thank you! That helps!