overflow: auto; is it supported for <td> of a html table?

There are long texts or string for html tab开发者_开发百科le <td>.

Now I want to break the line/texts/string.

overflow: auto; is it supported for <td> of a html table? I tried it it doesn't work.

How can I solve it ?

add a CSS attribute white-space

white-space:normal;

if your server side language is PHP you can word-wrap your data came from PHP using this function php wordwrap function