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Handling Long Words and URLs (Forcing Breaks, Hyphenation, Ellipsis, etc)

There are times when a really long string of text can overflow the container of a layout.

For example:

URL’s don’t typically have spaces in them, so they are often culprits.

Here’s a big snippet with all the CSS players …

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