Hello all,
I have encountered an unexpected problem where if I render a table (in IE or
Opera) and there are cells that contains URLs with long query strings, even
though I specify the table element with the width attribute set as 90%, when
I render the document, it spans way off the right side of the screen. For
some reason, having a long query string in the cell does some funcky stuff.
Does anyone know how to *force* the table to only span 90% across the
screen?
--Rich
Source below...
<html>
<head>
<title>Spider Status</title>
<style type="text/css">
table { border-style: solid;
border-width: thin;
border-color: white;
}
td { border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px ;
border-color: white;
}
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="darkbl ue" text="yellow">
<p>
<H1 align="left">Sp ider Status Page</H1><img src="spider_ani mation.gif"/>
<table border=1 width="90%">
<TR>
<TH>Record ID</TH>
<TH>Real World URL</TH>
<TH>Content Type</TH>
<TH>Base URL</TH>
<TH>Local filename</TH>
<TH>Test Results (Pass/Fail)</TH>
<TH>Comments</TH>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>30</TD>
<TD
style='width:10 0px'>http://blah.match.blah .perl.com/qsearch/qsearchdl.aspx? GenderCode=1&Th emRelationship= 2&M_Smoke=03&M_ LAGE_A0=21&M_UA GE_A1=40&photos only=1&Tracking ID=523324&banne rid=553216&CL=1 </TD>
<TD>text/html</TD>
<TD>http://peopleconnectio n.aol.com/love/</TD>
<TD>file30.html </TD>
<TD></TD>
<TD></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>39</TD>
<TD
style='width:10 0px'>http://horses.match.lo ve.cnn.com/search/search.aspx?Tra ckingID=523324& BannerID=553219 </TD>
<TD>text/html</TD>
<TD>http://peopleconnectio n.aol.com/love/</TD>
<TD>file39.html </TD>
<TD></TD>
<TD></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>40</TD>
<TD
style='width:10 0px'>http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?promo =547681&service =aolhsb&service =aolhsb</TD>
<TD>text/html</TD>
<TD>http://peopleconnectio n.aol.com/love/</TD>
<TD>file40.html </TD>
<TD></TD>
<TD></TD>
</TR>
</Table>
</p>
</body>
</html> 3 2829
RBalbat wrote: Hello all, I have encountered an unexpected problem where if I render a table (in IE or Opera) and there are cells that contains URLs with long query strings, even though I specify the table element with the width attribute set as 90%, when I render the document, it spans way off the right side of the screen. For some reason, having a long query string in the cell does some funcky stuff. Does anyone know how to *force* the table to only span 90% across the screen?
Theoretically the CSS max-width attribute should take care of it, but IE
doesn't support it, and I don't know how other browsers deal with it
when unbroken content is just too long. Which leads to my question: what
do you expect the browser to do when an unbroken string of characters is
too long for a cell of restricted width?
"Harlan Messinger" <hm************ *******@comcast .net> wrote in message
news:3n******** *****@individua l.net... RBalbat wrote: Hello all, I have encountered an unexpected problem where if I render a table (in IE or Opera) and there are cells that contains URLs with long query strings, even though I specify the table element with the width attribute set as 90%, when I render the document, it spans way off the right side of the screen. For some reason, having a long query string in the cell does some funcky stuff. Does anyone know how to *force* the table to only span 90% across the screen? Theoretically the CSS max-width attribute should take care of it, but IE doesn't support it, and I don't know how other browsers deal with it when unbroken content is just too long. Which leads to my question: what do you expect the browser to do when an unbroken string of characters is too long for a cell of restricted width?
Thanks for the reply Harlan. Even though I am restricting the width, I would
expect the content to simply wrap to the next line within the same cell.
"RBalbat" <RB*****@yahoo. com> wrote: Even though I am restricting the width, I would expect the content to simply wrap to the next line within the same cell.
That would be bad, since breaking a URL at an arbitrary position is wrong.
Usually the problem you describe vanishes in a puff of logic, if you ask
yourself "what are URLs for, in HTML authoring?"(Of course you should also
ask yourself "what made me think I wish to set a width in _pixels_?")
Right, put them into href attributes, and use normal text for link text.
Only in the rare cases where you write _about_ URLs do you need to consider
their line breaking issues, which are actually very complicated (and I mean
very complicated), but the practical choice is simple: insert <wbr> at any
permissible break point, and enclose the URL between suitable delimiters
like quotation marks. If you think this is too practical, read http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/nobr.html#suggest
--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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