in reply to Re: Splitting A Word?
in thread Splitting A Word?

no, usually the browser will expand the table to fit the text in it if there are really long words. that's the problem mpegman seems to be having. eg,

<table width="2" border="1">
<tr><td>looooooooooooooong</td></tr>
</table>

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gives you:

looooooooooooooong

certainly not 2 pixels wide.

if you're working on a more liquid layout, you could modify one of the regexps given to substitute in a <wbr /> tag instead of a space. that tells the browser that if it needs to wrap text, that's a good spot to do it in. but if it doesn't need to wrap the text, you won't end up with a space in the middle of the word.

anders pearson

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Re: Re: Re: Splitting A Word?
by damian1301 (Curate) on Jul 07, 2001 at 08:00 UTC
    Oh really? Well, that is because it won't break the word for you. If you explicity state it's length (and restrict the use of <nobr>) then it will wrap on words. Eg. 
    <table width="2" border="2">
<tr><td>yeah I am dave and blah blah blah blah blha</td></tr></table>

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    which produces.
    yeah I am dave and blah blah blah blah blha


    $_.=($=+(6<<1));print(chr(my$a=$_));$^H=$_+$_;$_=$^H;
print chr($_-39); # Easy but its ok.

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