# no wordwrap

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wordwrap/187998
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 12, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wordwrap/187998 "2003-07-12T17:20:23Z")
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### Author: ![remisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@remisser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/remisser)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wordwrap/187998/1 "2003-07-12T17:20:23Z")

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I’ve looked in every html tutorial possible… but can’t find this:

How can I disable wordwrap on a page? I know how to do it if I was using tables, but I’m not. Any clues?

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### Author: ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wordwrap/187998/2 "2003-07-12T19:22:08Z")

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you can use \<pre\> but why don’t you want to use tables?