layout question

[Howard]

some times there are very long urls in my page content that is pulled from a
database, it will mess up the page layout since there's no break or space in
the long word. Is there a way in html or css to fix this problem? or do i
have to write a script that finds all words in my string that are longer
than 50 characters and truncate them?

Howard

[Patrick.O.Ige]

Mr Howard you can write a function like below and make use of Substring:-
Protected Function CheckLength(ByVal Name As String) As String
If ProductName.ToString().Length > 18 Then
Return ProductName.Substring(0, 18) & "..."
Else
Return ProductName.ToString()
End If

End Function

Hope that helps
Patrick

"Howard" <ho*******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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some times there are very long urls in my page content that is pulled from a database, it will mess up the page layout since there's no break or space in the long word. Is there a way in html or css to fix this problem? or do i
have to write a script that finds all words in my string that are longer
than 50 characters and truncate them?

Howard

[Jim Underwood]

Are you displaying a URL link on your web page with the full URL as the link
text?

If so, one solution is to set up your database so that you have a URL and a
DESCRIPTION field. Make the description a reasonable length and make it
required. When the user enters a new URL they will have to put in a
reasonable description that will be displayed.

"Howard" <ho*******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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some times there are very long urls in my page content that is pulled from a database, it will mess up the page layout since there's no break or space in the long word. Is there a way in html or css to fix this problem? or do i
have to write a script that finds all words in my string that are longer
than 50 characters and truncate them?

Howard