Paragraph rendered correctly in IE but not Firefox?

[C Brown]

I'm using javascript to create a div that contains a paragraph which contains a long string. IE automatically wraps the contents, but Firefox displays the paragraph on one line. When I write it out in HTML it works in both browsers (like it should I assume because as far as I know the browser automatically wraps the contents of a paragraph). Is there something I'm missing when I use javascript? Thanks in advance.

  
//tipBox is the div, it has a width of 400
//para is the paragraph

var text = document.createTextNode("blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah...");
para.appendChild(text);
tipBox.appendChild(para);

[Eric Pascarello]

Have you set the wrap css rules?

word-wrap

Eric

[C Brown]

I'm sorry, I guess the text I entered was not a good example of what the actually text is. The text contains spaces so it should automatically break at a space when needed... right?

[Bear Bibeault]

Use Firebug to observe what's really getting created in the DOM. That might give you clues as to what's going on.

[C Brown]

Thanks for your response, I have been using firebug and I think everything looks okay. I just created a test page that uses javascript to create the div and paragraph and everything works, so there must be something wrong with my code (the part that I didn't post).