# line breaks?

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/line-breaks/23447>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [January 18, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/line-breaks/23447 "2008-01-18T09:28:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![11175](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/8edcca/32.png) [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/line-breaks/23447/1 "2008-01-18T09:28:47Z")

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how do I implement line breaks? for example if user writes some like sssssssssssssssssss long enough without any space, it disturbs the whole UI. How do I handle this? Thanks

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**Author:** ![11175](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/8edcca/32.png) [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/line-breaks/23447/2 "2008-01-18T12:40:01Z")

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Phil Tayo wrote:

> Vapor .. wrote:
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> > how do I implement line breaks? for example if user writes some like sssssssssssssssssss long enough without any space, it disturbs the whole UI. How do I handle this? Thanks
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> I'm not sure...can you put the text betweeen \<p\> \</p\> tags?

yes!