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Note that {{tag|wbr|o}} will not work inside {{tl|nowrap}}.

In many cases breaking up a word with a space would be inappropriate. Soft hyphens create a word-break opportunity, but will add a hyphen rather than a space. The code <code>&amp;shy;</code> is employed in the same manner as <code><{{tag|wbr></code>|o}} as seen in the examples above.

Use of soft hyphens should be limited to special cases, usually involving [[Longest English words|very long words]] or narrow spaces (such as captions in [[infobox|infoboxes]] or other tight page layouts, or column labels in narrow tables). Widespread use of soft hyphens is strongly discouraged, because it makes the wikitext very difficult to read and to edit. For example: