how to force clipping or wrapping?

[Steve]

I just noticed a bug on my site where if someone enters a continuous string
of characters like
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

and I have that being rendered into a table with a width set to say.. 100,
it will stretch the table to fit all those characters. Enforcing characters
wouldn't really work cause the cell is allowed to wrap, they can enter a ton
of text if they want to, but when there are that many characters next to
each other... it breaks it. I know I could sit there and count characters
and watch for spaces and determine when something smells bad, but there must
be an easier way to do this.

I have tried explicitly setting the <td> to the desired width, that won't
stop it either.

Any ideas?

Steve

[Kevin Spencer]

I'm afraid the method you described ("sit there and count characters
....") is the only way.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

"Steve" <st***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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I just noticed a bug on my site where if someone enters a continuous string of characters like
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

and I have that being rendered into a table with a width set to say.. 100,
it will stretch the table to fit all those characters. Enforcing characters wouldn't really work cause the cell is allowed to wrap, they can enter a ton of text if they want to, but when there are that many characters next to
each other... it breaks it. I know I could sit there and count characters
and watch for spaces and determine when something smells bad, but there must be an easier way to do this.

I have tried explicitly setting the <td> to the desired width, that won't
stop it either.

Any ideas?

Steve

[Guogang]

A textarea with cols='50' may solve your problem.
Or style: STYLE="word-wrap:break-word;"
"Steve" <st***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

I just noticed a bug on my site where if someone enters a continuous string of characters like
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

and I have that being rendered into a table with a width set to say.. 100,
it will stretch the table to fit all those characters. Enforcing characters wouldn't really work cause the cell is allowed to wrap, they can enter a ton of text if they want to, but when there are that many characters next to
each other... it breaks it. I know I could sit there and count characters
and watch for spaces and determine when something smells bad, but there must be an easier way to do this.

I have tried explicitly setting the <td> to the desired width, that won't
stop it either.

Any ideas?

Steve

[Steve]

WOOHOO!!

That worked perfect! It only works in IE, but, to be honest...... for this
site I don't care.

Thanks for the tip!
<TD width="300" style="word-wrap:break-word">

"Guogang" <nospam@no_such_domain.com> wrote in message
news:uu**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

A textarea with cols='50' may solve your problem.
Or style: STYLE="word-wrap:break-word;"
"Steve" <st***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

I just noticed a bug on my site where if someone enters a continuous

string

of characters like
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

and I have that being rendered into a table with a width set to say.. 100, it will stretch the table to fit all those characters. Enforcing

characters

wouldn't really work cause the cell is allowed to wrap, they can enter a

ton

of text if they want to, but when there are that many characters next to
each other... it breaks it. I know I could sit there and count characters and watch for spaces and determine when something smells bad, but there

must

be an easier way to do this.

I have tried explicitly setting the <td> to the desired width, that won't stop it either.

Any ideas?

Steve