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Is there any way to prevent a line break in HTML? For example, on one of my web pages the browser put a break after the comma in the number 43,560. I could remove the comma, but that makes the number harder to read.

I seem to remember old-style HTML has a way to prevent line breaks but it isn't universally supported and isn't legal in stricter varieties like XHTML.

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belongs to stack overflow ! – joe Nov 20 at 16:22
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or belongs in doctype – ricbax Nov 20 at 16:44
The tag you were looking for was the <NOBR> tag, but you should use Johannes's answer below. – T Pops Nov 20 at 17:25
doctype.com – Kevin Panko Nov 20 at 17:26

closed as not computer related by joe, jtimberman, ChrisF, Jeff Atwood♦ Nov 20 at 18:02
Questions on Super User are expected to generally relate to computer software or computer hardware in some way. This question is very far afield from software or hardware.

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You can use styles to ensure that the browser won't break lines there. CSS has a white-space property which does that. So

<span style="white-space: nowrap;">43,560</span>

should work.

If you need this more often, you should probably create a CSS class for that, though.

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