question about wrapping a string

[Joe Reynolds]

this is kinda off topic, but not totally.

i have an ASP page that pulls text from a database, stores it in a variable,
then uses <%= variable %to write the text inside an html table. the
problem im having has to do with wrapping. if the line of text is longer
than the table (or column) is wide, then the whole table is blown apart and
grows to fit the data. i was hoping for an easy way to fix this with CSS but
the only thing i can find that works is the wordwrap tag that ONLY IE
supports! so unless someone here knows how i can deal with this in css/html,
i will have to look at the Len() of the string and if its over a certain
amount of characters ill have to insert a <brat every Nth character. does
anyone have any ideas? my table might look like this:

<table width="500+>
<tr>
<td width="250">thi s is the text im concerned with</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

i want that <tdto stay at 250 wide no matter what! does anyone know how to
do this in css? and if not, can someone show me how i might insert <br>'s
into my string at every 20th character or so?

thanks

[Evertjan.]

Joe Reynolds wrote on 28 Sep 2006 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

this is kinda off topic, but not totally.

i have an ASP page that pulls text from a database, stores it in a
variable, then uses <%= variable %to write the text inside an html
table. the problem im having has to do with wrapping. if the line of
text is longer than the table (or column) is wide, then the whole
table is blown apart and grows to fit the data. i was hoping for an
easy way to fix this with CSS but the only thing i can find that works
is the wordwrap tag that ONLY IE supports! so unless someone here
knows how i can deal with this in css/html, i will have to look at the
Len() of the string and if its over a certain amount of characters ill
have to insert a <brat every Nth character. does anyone have any
ideas? my table might look like this:

<table width="500+>
<tr>
<td width="250">thi s is the text im concerned with</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

i want that <tdto stay at 250 wide no matter what! does anyone know
how to do this in css? and if not, can someone show me how i might
insert <br>'s into my string at every 20th character or so?

It is totally off topic, since it is a clientside css matter.

Please ask in a css NG.
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Joe Reynolds]

did you read the whole problem?
i asked for help with a string in ASP. how is that off topic? why dont you
go read the whole problem and respond again


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Joe Reynolds wrote on 28 Sep 2006 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

>this is kinda off topic, but not totally.

i have an ASP page that pulls text from a database, stores it in a
variable, then uses <%= variable %to write the text inside an html
table. the problem im having has to do with wrapping. if the line of
text is longer than the table (or column) is wide, then the whole
table is blown apart and grows to fit the data. i was hoping for an
easy way to fix this with CSS but the only thing i can find that works
is the wordwrap tag that ONLY IE supports! so unless someone here
knows how i can deal with this in css/html, i will have to look at the
Len() of the string and if its over a certain amount of characters ill
have to insert a <brat every Nth character. does anyone have any
ideas? my table might look like this:

<table width="500+>
<tr>
<td width="250">thi s is the text im concerned with</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

i want that <tdto stay at 250 wide no matter what! does anyone know
how to do this in css? and if not, can someone show me how i might
insert <br>'s into my string at every 20th character or so?

It is totally off topic, since it is a clientside css matter.

Please ask in a css NG.
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Evertjan.]

Joe Reynolds wrote on 28 Sep 2006 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

"Evertjan." <ex************ **@interxnl.net wrote in message
news:Xn******** ************@19 4.109.133.242.. .

>Joe Reynolds wrote on 28 Sep 2006 in
microsoft.publ ic.inetserver.a sp.general:

>>this is kinda off topic, but not totally.

i have an ASP page that pulls text from a database, stores it in a
variable, then uses <%= variable %to write the text inside an html
table. the problem im having has to do with wrapping. if the line of
text is longer than the table (or column) is wide, then the whole
table is blown apart and grows to fit the data. i was hoping for an
easy way to fix this with CSS but the only thing i can find that
works is the wordwrap tag that ONLY IE supports! so unless someone
here knows how i can deal with this in css/html, i will have to look
at the Len() of the string and if its over a certain amount of
characters ill have to insert a <brat every Nth character. does
anyone have any ideas? my table might look like this:

<table width="500+>
<tr>
<td width="250">thi s is the text im concerned with</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

i want that <tdto stay at 250 wide no matter what! does anyone
know how to do this in css? and if not, can someone show me how i
might insert <br>'s into my string at every 20th character or so?

It is totally off topic, since it is a clientside css matter.

Please ask in a css NG.

[please do not toppost on usenet. Corrected.]

did you read the whole problem?
i asked for help with a string in ASP. how is that off topic? why dont
you go read the whole problem and respond again

so if I ask ...
<% = "Goede morgen" %>
Please translate the text in English?
.... it is an asp problem?

No, your problem can and schould be tackled with css,
like my above example in news:sci.lang.t ranslation.

So please ask in news:comp.infos ystems.www.authoring.stylesheets.

>>and if not, can someone show me how i
might insert <br>'s into my string at every 20th character or so?

So as I answered that css is the solution,
the Q is totally off topic,
since the "if not" does not apply when there is an css solution,
as you stipulated yourself!

>>might insert <br>'s into my string at every 20th character or so?

.... which should make your string unreadable anyway.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Joe Reynolds]

please dont bottom post, it annoys most of us.

no, it cant be handled in CSS because IE is the only browser that supports
the necessary tag (you should do more research before you answer)

so, again, since i will be displaying text in a fixed width column, how can
i take a string, loop through the characters, and insert a <brat a
specific character count? is that on topic enough for you?

"Evertjan." <ex************ **@interxnl.net wrote in message
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Joe Reynolds wrote on 28 Sep 2006 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

>"Evertjan." <ex************ **@interxnl.net wrote in message
news:Xn******* *************@1 94.109.133.242. ..

>>Joe Reynolds wrote on 28 Sep 2006 in
microsoft.pub lic.inetserver. asp.general:

this is kinda off topic, but not totally.

i have an ASP page that pulls text from a database, stores it in a
variable, then uses <%= variable %to write the text inside an html
table. the problem im having has to do with wrapping. if the line of
text is longer than the table (or column) is wide, then the whole
table is blown apart and grows to fit the data. i was hoping for an
easy way to fix this with CSS but the only thing i can find that
works is the wordwrap tag that ONLY IE supports! so unless someone
here knows how i can deal with this in css/html, i will have to look
at the Len() of the string and if its over a certain amount of
characters ill have to insert a <brat every Nth character. does
anyone have any ideas? my table might look like this:

<table width="500+>
<tr>
<td width="250">thi s is the text im concerned with</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

i want that <tdto stay at 250 wide no matter what! does anyone
know how to do this in css? and if not, can someone show me how i
might insert <br>'s into my string at every 20th character or so?

It is totally off topic, since it is a clientside css matter.

Please ask in a css NG.

[please do not toppost on usenet. Corrected.]

>did you read the whole problem?
i asked for help with a string in ASP. how is that off topic? why dont
you go read the whole problem and respond again

so if I ask ...
<% = "Goede morgen" %>
Please translate the text in English?
... it is an asp problem?

No, your problem can and schould be tackled with css,
like my above example in news:sci.lang.t ranslation.

So please ask in news:comp.infos ystems.www.authoring.stylesheets.

>>>and if not, can someone show me how i
might insert <br>'s into my string at every 20th character or so?

So as I answered that css is the solution,
the Q is totally off topic,
since the "if not" does not apply when there is an css solution,
as you stipulated yourself!

>>>might insert <br>'s into my string at every 20th character or so?

... which should make your string unreadable anyway.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Dave Anderson]

Joe Reynolds wrote:

i want that <tdto stay at 250 wide no matter what! does anyone
know how to do this in css? and if not, can someone show me how
i might insert <br>'s into my string at every 20th character or
so?

Yes, and Evertjan is correct. This really is not an ASP issue. It is a
presentation issue.

You can solve your problem by nesting a DIV container inside the TD and
styling the DIV with "width:250p x;". Alternately, you can try using the
fixed table layout:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.ht...d-table-layout

CSS2 also defines a "max-width" property, but (a) I don't think it is widely
implemented, and (b) it probably suffers the same problem when applied to
table cells:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.h...pdef-max-width

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Dave Anderson

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[Joe Reynolds]

hey thank you.
unfortunately the div method doesnt work.

so now since i need an asp solution.... LOL

how can i loop through the string and insert a <brevery 20th character?
any ideas?


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Joe Reynolds wrote:

>i want that <tdto stay at 250 wide no matter what! does anyone
know how to do this in css? and if not, can someone show me how
i might insert <br>'s into my string at every 20th character or
so?

Yes, and Evertjan is correct. This really is not an ASP issue. It is a
presentation issue.

You can solve your problem by nesting a DIV container inside the TD and
styling the DIV with "width:250p x;". Alternately, you can try using the
fixed table layout:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.ht...d-table-layout

CSS2 also defines a "max-width" property, but (a) I don't think it is
widely implemented, and (b) it probably suffers the same problem when
applied to table cells:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.h...pdef-max-width

--
Dave Anderson

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[Dave Anderson]

[please do not toppost]

Joe Reynolds wrote:

please dont bottom post, it annoys most o
f us. no, it cant be handled in CSS becau
se IE is the only browser that supports t
he necessary tag (you should do more rese
arch before you answer)

so, again, since i will be displaying tex
t in a fixed width column, how can i take
a string, loop through the characters, an
d insert a <brat a specific character c
ount? is that on topic enough for you?

Is that really what you want your text to look like? Rather unreadable, if
you ask me. But I guess there is no stopping you from doing this:

for (
var a=[], i=0;
i<variable.leng th;
a.push(variable .substring(i,i+ =20))
)

output = a.join("<br>")

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Dave Anderson

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[Evertjan.]

Joe Reynolds wrote on 28 Sep 2006 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

please dont bottom post, it annoys most of us.

You are wrong, depending on what you mean with "us".

I did not ask you [politely] not to toppost,
as it is against usenet netiquette.

I did not ask you to bottompost.

Bottom posting is not the alternative of topposting,

no, it cant be handled in CSS because IE is the only browser that
supports the necessary tag

You are wrong, it can be.
What "tag" are you talking about? style='' ?

(you should do more research before you answer)

It seems to me, you, as the asking party, you could be more polite,
when people try to answer you, even if you do not like the answer,
thinking you know better.

Why were you asking about css anyway,
when you are so sure that is not the answer?

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

actually, bottom posting does indeed annoy 50% of "us", and by us i mean the 50% of newsgroup users that like to "top post" because it is more natural, it is how email works, and it is the default for most news readers. but i dont imagine youll get into this discussion for the millionth time. it is a preference. mine is different than yours, learn to live with it.

as for the style tag, i am referring to the IE only tag, "word-wrap: break-word" which will wrap text once it reaches the limit of the container it is in. other than that, as far as i know there is nothig else. a DIV tag would work, unless its a string with no spaces, then that too fails.

so what is your solution?


"Evertjan." <ex************ **@interxnl.net wrote in message news:Xn******** ************@19 4.109.133.242.. .

Joe Reynolds wrote on 28 Sep 2006 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

>please dont bottom post, it annoys most of us.

You are wrong, depending on what you mean with "us".

I did not ask you [politely] not to toppost,
as it is against usenet netiquette.

I did not ask you to bottompost.

Bottom posting is not the alternative of topposting,

>no, it cant be handled in CSS because IE is the only browser that
supports the necessary tag

You are wrong, it can be.
What "tag" are you talking about? style='' ?

>(you should do more research before you answer)

It seems to me, you, as the asking party, you could be more polite,
when people try to answer you, even if you do not like the answer,
thinking you know better.

Why were you asking about css anyway,
when you are so sure that is not the answer?

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)