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Originally Posted by AlexBell

I'm working on an epub ebook which in each of its 18 books and 208 chapters has a 'preface' of several words or a few sentences. The text of the 'preface' is centered, often using several lines, and quite often the last word on a line breaks, and is hyphenated. I think this looks awful.

Is there a way to prevent all of the words in the centered text from breaking? A word at the end of a line which would otherwise break will then drop to the next line.

I know how to prevent a single word from breaking and hyphenating. But I really don't want to have to apply this markup to all or most of the words in each of the 226 'prefaces'.

In your .css file create the following class:

.no_hyphens {
    adobe-hyphenate: none;
    hyphenate: none;
    hyphens: none;
    -epub-hyphens: none;
    -moz-hyphens: none;
    -webkit-hyphens: none;
}

And in your .xhtml file you have two ways of working:

1) Enclose the text to be not hyphened in a div tag with the class previously defined; i.e:

<div class="no_hyphens">
  <p>blah, blah, blah...</p>

  <p>blah, blah, blah...</p>

  <p>blah, blah, blah...</p>
</div>

2) If you want to apply the style to only a tag (i.e. h1, h2, h3..., p, etc.) then give the style to that tag; i.e;

if you have:

<h2 class="title">This is my own title</h2>

then after applying the new style you'll have:

<h2 class="title no_hyphens">This is my own title</h2>

Or if you have:

<p class="center">The text of my preface here....</p>

then after applying the new style you'll have:

<p class="center no_hyphens">The text of my preface here....</p>

Regards
Rubén