Limit width of msg...

[vanillapod]

Hi, i made a guestbook a while back andeverything was working fine until the other day. Basically I've re-made the view messages page but the field holding the msg grows beyond the width of the screen. It didn't do this before! how do i stop the text going of the edge of the window?? The code (a part of anyway) i'm using is below:

</td>
<td width=&quot;84%&quot;><font size=&quot;-1&quot;><%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item(&quot;Message&quot.Value)%></font></td>
</tr>


Cheers

 

[BBirkett]

Don't know if you know this already but you can reduce
<%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item(&quot;Message&quot.Value)%> to
<%=Recordset1(&quot;Message&quot%>

This can save a lot of typing when there are a lot of fields!!

As for your formatting problem... it looks to me like your problem is in a piece of code you haven't posted. If your <td width=&quot;84%&quot;> column is embedded in a table with say 200% for example, then the <td> column will be 168% of the screen, and you would have to scroll horizontally.

You might need to post the rest of your html to get help on this. Brett Birkett B.Comp
Systems Analyst

 

[vanillapod]

Hey BBirket, cheers for the response. I knew about that coding issue but I'm using Ultradev (partly) and it seems to use the longer method (it does make a load of code longer than it needs to be). Anyway yeah i checked out the table percentages and they looked okay, oh well I'll go have another look, wouldn't be the first time I've been looking straight past the problem!

Cheers again