Thanks for the suggestions, i've tried each and with varying success. I like the ­. The main problem with that is that i'm using Mason, and Mason has a handy |h thing which strips out HTML and things like &anything before displaying the string to the screen, so I can't really make any substitutions and add HTML code in... even escaped HTML code. So i'm a little bit stuck. I can of course just not use the Mason |h flag, but ideally I would like to just put everything in a table cell and FORCE that cell not to be more than x pixels wide. However if there are no line breaks or spaces in the string I don't think there is a HTML construct that will allow me to do this.

I hope I am making sense here.

I suppose i'm looking for a HTML solution to wrap around the string to force it to fit into the space I want, rather than actually changing the string itself.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Tom

In reply to Re: •Re: Forcing a string with no spaces to wrap to fit on the screen by Anonymous Monk
in thread Forcing a string with no spaces to wrap to fit on the screen by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.