wbr tag problems with konqueror

This appears to be a problem with Konqueror attempting to render the <wbr /> tag as some sort of non-existant character. The boxes on the screenshot appear everywhere a wbr tag is used.

I do not experience this problem in Firefox, Opera, or IE6.

Agreed, especially as it's invalid XHTML.

it is part of the HTML4 standard. nsk - you linked to a different tag.

Would you please link to WBR's location in the spec.? I can't find it.

hmm. now i can't find it either. i guess it isn't part of an official standard. so yeah, lets strike it. see http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/w/wbr.htm

Most likely this is caused by the following CSS rule in the stylesheet:
wbr:after { content: "\00200B" }

I guess Konqueror doesn't know how to deal with it. Pity. Until I find a method of word breaking which works on as many common browsers as wbr + this, I'm inclined to leave it in. WBR is not in HTML because the Unicode (non-)joiner characters are supposed to be used instead, except support for them is appaling.

What happens if you install a Unicode font which includes the character properly? Or doesn't KDE/Konqueror support font substitution?

There may be a better way to hack this tag. Consider the following code:

wbr {
display: inline-block;
width: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}

You might also try this tag in the beginning of your document, before the html tag:

<!ELEMENT wbr EMPTY>

That should make the tag validate.

Looks like this issue got into the user experience queue and died. I'm confused as to where it belongs. What do others think?

Completely wrong queue.

nobody cares for a browser with less than 0.5% of page requests. Also, bluebeach will be retired soonish.