Re: Re: Splitting A Word?

[thraxil]

no, usually the browser will expand the table to fit the text in it if there are really long words. that's the problem mpegman seems to be having. eg,

<table width="2" border="1">
<tr><td>looooooooooooooong</td></tr>
</table>

gives you:

looooooooooooooong

certainly not 2 pixels wide.

if you're working on a more liquid layout, you could modify one of the regexps given to substitute in a <wbr /> tag instead of a space. that tells the browser that if it needs to wrap text, that's a good spot to do it in. but if it doesn't need to wrap the text, you won't end up with a space in the middle of the word.

anders pearson

[damian1301]

Oh really? Well, that is because it won't break the word for you. If you explicity state it's length (and restrict the use of <nobr>) then it will wrap on words. Eg.

<table width="2" border="2">
<tr><td>yeah I am dave and blah blah blah blah blha</td></tr></table>

which produces.

yeah I am dave and blah blah blah blah blha





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