Line breaking, also known as
word wrapping, is the process of breaking a section of text into lines such that it will fit in the available width of a page, window or other display area. In text display,
line wrap is the feature of continuing on a new line when a line is full, such that each line fits in the viewable window, allowing text to be read from top to bottom without any horizontal
scrolling.
Word wrap is the additional feature of most
text editors,
word processors, and
web browsers, of breaking lines between words rather than within words, when possible. Word wrap makes it unnecessary to hard-code
newline delimiters within
paragraphs, and allows the display of text to adapt flexibly and dynamically to displays of varying sizes.