Article Summary
CSS nowrap is a value of the CSS white-space property that forces text to stay on a single line instead of wrapping. This article covers all white-space values, how nowrap behaves, and how to pair it with the overflow property. You'll leave knowing exactly when and how to use CSS nowrap effectively.
When text loads on a web page, the default action is to print the text on one line until it reaches the end, and then the text wraps and continues on the next line. However, there may be times when you don’t want this to happen, like when you want to use CSS nowrap.
In this article, we will look at how you can use the nowrap value, along with the CSS white-space property, to change this default wrapping action. We will also look at other methods you can use to prevent text from wrapping.
What is CSS nowrap?
The nowrap value indicates that the text in an HTML element should not wrap. There are actually a few ways to apply this element depending on what type of element you are trying to modify. One way to ensure that the text in an element doesn’t wrap is adding the HTML nowrap attribute to the element and not using any CSS at all, but you can only use this attribute with some elements, and it is not very flexible. Using CSS is usually the best way to go, so let’s look at how to do that.
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