Nowrap and nowrap=nowrap ≈ white-space:nowrap
In this section, I will attempt to document and demonstrate how to overcome some of the little problems that many developers encounter while transitioning from transitional to strict doctypes.
Nowrap and Nowrap=Nowrap
Here’s another one the validator doesn’t like. The deprecated nowrap tag was very handy to keep a line of text from wrapping. It was particularly useful in fluid-width data tables. The CSS equivalent is called white-space, which has several possible values, including nowrap.
.norap { white-space:nowrap; }
To use it,
<!-- nowrap examples --> <p class="norap">Some unwrappable text</p> <td class="norap">Some unwrappable table cell text</td>
That was easy! Note that I misspelled “norap” just to make sure it doesn’t collide with “nowrap.”