Line Break in loong URL causing table to expand

[specialist]

Greetings everyone-

I have a question I would love to get advice on.

I have a recordset with a few very looonggg urls which push the lengh of the table out and I was wondering if there was a way to add a line break either via ASP or within the stored procedure to add a line <br> break after 75 charachters.

Any advice on how to do this would make this a great day

Thank you for any advice or recomendations.

-Mike

 

[jeepxo]

in VBScript

Function addLineBreak(myString) as String
   If (len(myString)>75) then
      myString = left(myString,75) & "<br>" & mid(myString,75)
   End If
End Function

or if you use JavaScript

function addLineBreak(myString)
{
    if (myString.length >> 75)
    {
        myString = myString.substring(0,75) + "<br>" + myString.substr(75)
    }
    return myString
}

Note the difference between substring and substr in the javascript


&quot;Every day is like a precious gift, you have to make it count&quot; James Birrell 1993-2001

 

[pkailas]

Shouldn't the second part start at position 76 though?

 

[trollacious]

With VBScript, yes, the second part should start with the 76th character. Javascript is zero-based, so that code is correct.

Lee

 

[jeepxo]

yeah that was my mistake.
Get in a mindset for a certain language and you forget little things like that when you switch languages.

&quot;Every day is like a precious gift, you have to make it count&quot; James Birrell 1993-2001

 

[specialist]

All-

Perhpas I mislabeled my post. I was able to perform a line break via Word-Wrap attribute in css. There is an article here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...uthor/dhtml/reference/properties/wordwrap.asp

jeepxo, pkailas, trollacious thank you for reading and replying to the post.

Thanks!

Mike

 

[ahmun]

You might also try the solution presented in this thread: thread333-985135

Instead of breaking out the URL into seperate lines, you could truncate it... so that the display of the url isn't causing your table to be stretched out, but the link will still take you to where you want to go.

Earnie Eng