Making a table cell break a long line of text

[scooter262]

I have a table that has one column containing long code snippets without spaces. When I print the table, the first two columns are squished to only 2 or 3 characters, making an awful look, and lots of pages.

Is there a way to set a column or cell so that it will break a line after a certain number of characters, or a certain number of pixels/inches?

Even when I set the column widths, it gets overridden, and the first two rows still get squished.

[BedfordWriter]

You can force word breaks with

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word-break: break-all;

in the style for an element. Note that there may be browser support issues with that. There's also

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overflow-wrap: break-word;

If I may, I also suggest looking into using div tags to display columns rather than using tables.