Format a column of table cells

[leegold2]

I'm looping through a DB and displaying a "shaved down" brief display of each record in tabular format via HTMl tables. For one particular field (ie. table cell) I do:

$table_content = substr($full_content, 0, 170);

With that I am selecting the first 170 characters of content which I then put into the table cell with the link "...more" tagged onto the end - which links to a specific detail page for that record.

My question is I want to try and format this column of cells. Even though I'm putting in the same number of chars into each table cell, it seems because of word breaking I don't get a consistent "look". For example, if I had a 150 character word in one cell it would stretch the table column way out of "wack". Is there an intelligent way to format a column of table cells or maybe a way to break long words to get a consistant look in that column. Either via CSS, HTML or PHP?

Thanks

 

[sleipnir214]

Maybe the PHP function wordwrap()?

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[jpadie]

that's useful knowledge - one that i haven't come across before!

would you then recommend outputting the result in html using nl2br(0) or with preformatted tags?

 

[plectrum]

Try this

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/wordwrap.asp

But it's for IE only

Jack