CSS3 provides some support for this. Source: http://drublic.de/blog/css3-auto-hyphenation-for-text-elements/
You can check the w3c documentation here: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-text-20110901/#hyphenation
CSS3 adds six properties to the list of useful thing. These are:
- The most important one is
hyphens.
- You can add dictionary-files with
hyphenate-resource so the browser has a better chance to render your text with the right hyphenation.
hyphenate-before sets a minimum number of characters before the hyphenation.hyphenate-after does the same as hyphenate-before but for characters after the hyphenation.hyphenate-lines defines about how many lines a hyphenated word is written at a maximum.
with hyphenate-character you can specify which HTML-entity should be used, e.g. 2010.
The main property of this stack is hyphens. It accepts one of three values: none, manual or auto. The default one is manual, where you can set hyphens via ­. auto it the better one for continuous text while words get split if possible and available. And none does not hyphenate at all even if there is a character set for a possible line break in a certain word.
Update:
Browser support information here: http://caniuse.com/css-hyphens
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