HTML , CSS how to fix paragraph inside box only

July 7, 2022

hello i am new in HTML and CSS now i have a problem with paragraph text it is overlapping i don’t know how to solve this.
here is the picture

here is the code i wrote.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<style>
    .box{
        padding: 10px;
        width: 500px;
        height: 200px;
        border:1px solid red;
    }
</style>
    <div class="box">
        hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hellohello hello hello hello hello hello
        hellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohello
    </div>
</body>
</html>

>Solution :

Use word-break: break-word;

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.box {
     padding: 10px;
     width: 500px;
     height: 200px;
     border:1px solid red;
     word-break: break-word;
 }

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="box">
        hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hellohello hello hello hello hello hello
        hellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohello
    </div>
</body>
</html>