Template:Nowraplinks/doc

Description
This is the nowraplinks template.

This template prevents word wraps (line breaks) inside links (links with spaces in) and only allows word wraps between the links and in normal text. This is useful for instance for long link lists. It works similarly to nowrap and nowrap begin.

This template takes no parameters by default, instead it works in pair with nowraplinks end. It can also optionally be used with a parameter.

Before you use this template you might want to read up on Line break handling.

Usage
This link will not wrap - This link also won't wrap - And so on - But this sentence might word wrap.

Both examples will render something like this:


 * This link will not wrap -
 * This link also won't wrap -
 * And so on - But this sentence
 * might word wrap.

But they will not render like this:


 * This link will not wrap - This link
 * shouldn't have wrapped - And so on -
 * But this sentence might word wrap.

Advanced usage
Most of the functionality in this template is implemented as a CSS class in common.css. That class can be used together with pretty much any HTML tag or any box to prevent links to word wrap. For instance like this:

Or like this:

If the nowraplinks class is applied in the header of a table it will prevent line wrapping of links in all cells in the table. Note that in a table header there usually is a need to apply several classes. Then the class names should be separated by spaces in the class tag, not by commas or semicolons. Like this:

It will render this:

To really see the nowrap effect on the links above you can drag the width of your web browser window so it becomes smaller and smaller.

Technical details
The actual code that does the job is this CSS code in Common.css.

It simply means that any white-space inside links (HTML A tags) and bold "links" to the page itself are not allowed to wrap.

It is then invoked like this:

That span code is what the nowraplinks and nowraplinks end tags are packaging in an easy to use way.

The standard navboxes use the .nowraplinks class, thus automatically handling most wrapping problems in those navboxes.

In some cases link lists that use nowraplinks can behave weird in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Then use nowrap begin and its helper templates instead.