text length exceeds outer div , css-property word-wrap:break-word not working properly

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<html><head></head><body onLoad="myFunction()"><style>body {font:14px arial;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;margin-right:0;word-wrap:break-word;text-overflow: ellipsis;overflow: hidden;white-space: wrap;}"</style><div class="greenBorder" style="display: table; height: 100%; #position: relative; overflow: hidden;"><div style=" #position: absolute; #top: 50%;display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;"><img src="double-quote-up@2x~iphone.png" width="14" height="14" style="display:inline-block;float:left;" /><span id="longText" style="max-width:200px;word-wrap: break-word;word-break:break-all;display:inline-block;">1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111122222222222333333333333333333344444444444</span><img src="double-quote-down@2x~iphone.png" width="14" height="14" style="display:inline-block" /></div></div></body></html>

I want somthing like this structure :-

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<img_quote_start>a_long_string_here_a_long_string_here_a_long_st
  a_long_string_here_a_long_string_here_a_long_string_here_a_lo
  ng_string_here_a_long_string_here_a_long_string_here_a_long_s
  tring_here<img_quote_end>

Thanks for your answers.

Posted 17-Mar-13 21:08pm

Ravi K.Singh

Updated 17-Mar-13 21:43pm

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Prasad Khandekar · Answer 1 · 2013-03-17T21:17:00

Hello Ravi,

Add width:200px to span. It should work. A very good demo is available here [^]. May be following example can help you.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge"></meta>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></meta>
<meta name="author" content="Prasad P. Khandekar"></meta>
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0"></meta>
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"></meta>
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache"></meta>
<meta http-equiv="Pragma-directive" content="no-cache"></meta>
<meta http-equiv="cache-directive" content="no-cache"></meta>
<title>Test Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
    font:14px arial;
    margin:0;
    overflow: hidden;
    word-wrap:break-word;
    white-space: wrap;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
.greenBorder {
    border: 1px solid #008000;
}
.quotestart {
    width:16px;
    vertical-align: top;
    background: transparent top left no-repeat scroll url('images/lq.png');
}
.quoteend {
    width: 16px;
    vertical-align: bottom;
    background: transparent top left no-repeat scroll url('images/rq.png');
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="greenBorder" style="display: table; height: 100%; removed: relative; overflow: hidden;">
        <div style=" #removed: absolute; #removed 50%;display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;">
            <span id="longText" style="max-width:200px;width:200px;word-wrap: break-word;word-break:break-all;display:inline-block;">
                <img src="images/lq.png"/>
               1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111122222222222333333333333333333344444444444
                <img src="images/rq.png"/>
            </span>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

rq.png & lq.png are 16x16 images created using Terbuchet MS font & Alt+0147, Alt+0148 sequences.

Regards,