any way to make button text multi-line ?

[millerk]

I have a button that needs to have a caption with 3 words in it. Is there a way to make it multi-line like this:
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In VB6, this happened automatically if the text was too long to fit horizontally within the button. But in ASP.Net, I haven't found a way to keep it from just cutting off the text if it is too long to fit horizontally.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[millerk]

The spacing on my pipes got messed up, but you can see what I mean.

 

[link9]

Not with a native asp:Button, no, because it maps to an HTML submit button. However, you can do it w/ a regular button. ex:

<BUTTON id="btnWrap" type="button" runat="server">
	<div style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; WIDTH: 70px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; HEIGHT: 48px; WORD-WRAP: break-word"
		width="100%">this is a button with some really long text</div>
</BUTTON>

You could play around with those styles to get it to work. Only problem is that it's not a server control, but that may not be an issue depending on what you need it for. In all cases, you could find a workaround if this need was the most important, though.


paul

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[crazyboybert]

Paul

Did you mean

<input type="button"...

or is there something I've missed here? I didnt know there was a button control like this? Also i didnt knwo you could put HTML inside a button like that...Can you also do this by applying it with the value attribute? I'm going to have to have a play around with this now as i'm intrigued..%-)

Rob

Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence - Erhmann 1927

 

[jzelhart]

You could also make it an Image Button and make an image with the text as desired.

Just an idea...

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Thanks - Jennifer

 

[Isadore]

Jennifer - sure, that would work, just make it a transparent GIF, and who'd know the difference?

 

[millerk]

Thanks for the ideas.
I think the image button idea probably makes the most sense. I'm a newb to the web/html side of things so I'd rather keep the button as a server control.

 

[link9]

Rob, I'm not sure what all is possible using this, as it was the result of some quick research and a little test I did where the code above did actually work.

I could not get the same thing to work with <asp:Button />, which sort of confused me, also.

I would have to agree w/ Jennifer, though. It seems to me a cleaner solution to just use an image button. That way, it is a full fledged server control w/ all the bells and whistles.

-p

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