Truncating cell text

[AndyGroom]

I'm using HTML to generate a spreadsheet-style report and I wondered if there was a way using Styles to force the contents of a cell to truncate rather than word-wrap?

So for example:
"This might be a cell with a particularly long phrase"
would become:
"This might be a cell with (...)"

The (...) would appear at the place where the text would otherwise automatically wrap.

- Andy
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[Vragabond]

Nope, this is not possible with HTML or CSS, you would need to resort to some sort of server-side (or client-side, though I would not recommend that) scripting. With CSS, all you could do is hide some of the text in a box that has overflow set to hidden and height and width constrained. If you put an element like that in your table cell, that would do it, but it probably won't look very nice.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

If this is for an IE-only intranet, then you could investigate the "text-overflow:ellipsis;" style.

Hmm - perhaps this would help with a cross-browser version?

http://www.jide.fr/emulate-text-overflowellipsis-in-firefox-with-css

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[AndyGroom]

Thanks, I'll check that link. Yes, the report only ever appears in a WebBrowser object so it only needs to be IE compatible.

- Andy
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