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Mid-word Linebreaks

When formatting tables, you can tell mediawiki to apply a linebreak mid-word via the <wbr> or &­shy; html tags. While <wbr> will just allow the word to be broken up at this spot, &­shy; will additionally add a hyphen (shy = soft hyphen). This can be especially useful when dealing with long words in small tables and/or small columns. It can also help to prevent tables with these really long words from breaking pages on mobile devices.

{| class="horizon-table table-xs digging-table"
! width="10%" | Reallylong<wbr>header! !! width="20%" | header 2 !! width="20%" | header 3!! width="25%" | header 4!! width="25%" | header 5
|-
| reallylong<wbr>content! || content || content || content || content
|}

Results in...

Reallylongheader!	header 2	header 3	header 4	header 5
reallylongcontent!	content	content	content	content

The same with using &­shy;

{| class="horizon-table table-xs digging-table"
! width="10%" | Reallylong&­shy;header! !! width="20%" | header 2 !! width="20%" | header 3!! width="25%" | header 4!! width="25%" | header 5
|-
| reallylong&­shy;content! || content || content || content || content
|}

Results in...

Reallylong­header!	header 2	header 3	header 4	header 5
reallylong­content!	content	content	content	content