SPPB 5: How The Enter Soft Hyphen In Text Blocks, Headings, Etc. In The Backend Editor
Peter Hunkeler
In German, there are quore long words. I need to tell the browser where to do the hyphenation, and this is done with ­
When editing SPPB pages in the backen editor, is there a way to enter a soft hyphen directly, so I don0t need to switch to HTML edit mode? In text processing, a soft hyphen can usially be entered with CTRL-SHIFT-"dash", but this does not seem to work in SPPBs edior.
Paul Frankowski
Accepted AnswerHi Peter,
Q: How it's solved on other websites from your country? Check a few goverment sites and preview its HTML & CSS code, also ask local Swiss Joomla Community on FB.
Maybe it's based on CSS styles >>
- https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_hyphens.php
- https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_word-break.php
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens
Somehow I cannot believe that editors each time manually add "soft hyphen" in Switzerland or German websites.
Ofi Khan
Accepted AnswerHello Peter Hunkeler,
Thank you for reaching out to our technical support forum.
You can directly enter the hyphen that is available on the keyboard.
­ will not work on text block type addons.
Best regards
Peter Hunkeler
Accepted AnswerHello Ofi Khan Than you for the answer. Your example doesn't show a "soft hypen", but merely a normal hyphen .The hyphens in your example will always be shown, no matter whether the browser will make a line break or not.
To illustrate, I added a new text addon and typed the text This-Is-A-Very-Lon-Word-With-Dashes into the content field (image 1)
This text si then shown as follows (image 2)
As you can see, all the hyphens are shown, line brake or not
The I swiched to Source Code mode and replaced all the hyphens with ­ (image 3)
This text then looks like this when after closing the Source Code popup (image 4)
And when looking at the page, the browser only show a hyphen at the point where it inserts the line break (images 5 & 6)
So, soft hyphens do work despite the fact you wrote they don't. It is just a bit laborious to enter all the ­ in source code mode.
Peter Hunkeler
Accepted AnswerSomehow I cannot believe that editors each time manually add "soft hyphen" in Switzerland or German websites.
Wow! Some editors (me) are just ignorant about some of the zillion CSS properties out there. Sometimes you need to stumble across, or find some kind soul telling you. Thanks.