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<wbr>

A word-break opportunity inside an otherwise unbreakable token.

Baseline: Widely available · Inline text semantics

When to use it

In long URLs, file paths, and identifiers so they can wrap at sensible points.

When not to

Not a substitute for CSS overflow-wrap on general prose.

Example

https://html-tags.com/tags/wbr

<p><code>https://html-tags.com/<wbr>tags/<wbr>wbr</code></p>
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