very big long string

[TruthInSatire]

I have a table that I would like to fit on one page. The table is set to 100% the problem is one of the cells has a url in it that causes the table cell to stretch about 500 characters (it doesn't have any breaking characters or end of line puncuation like "?" or " " or anything). is there anyway to force the url string to break automaticaly where the cell ends rather than stretch the cell?

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[MrBelfry]

I don't think you can force a break. What you can do though is use a style to define what you want to happen when the text is so long.

.tablecell {
overflow: scroll;
}

MrBelfry

 

[clarkin]

How bout

<a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.ridicolouslylongURLgoeshere.com/continuefor500chars.html&quot;[/URL] title=&quot;Click to go to blah&quot;>This URL is too long</a>

Posting code? Wrap it with code tags: [ignore]

[/ignore][code]CodeHere

[ignore][/code][/ignore].

 

[TruthInSatire]

Thank you both.

MrBelfry: The CSS didn't work. is that the CSS equal to "nowrap"? I did try that.

Clarkin: That isn't a bad Idea however the url is tossed into a large memo field with other notes/descriptions. Also its ment to be a printable report so putting a "click here" link wouldn't quite do the trick.

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[MrBelfry]

The css should put scrollbars on the table cell

try

td {
overflow: scroll;
}

or one of the other values of the overflow property

MrBelfry

 

[TruthInSatire]

hmm, i tried putting that in my css page and nothing happened (yes its linked) both .tablecell class and the td{} suggestion. i've never used the overflow property, is there anything special i need to do? I also tried overflow: hidden; but that didn't do anything either.

i currently have the tabel cell width set to "200" i've also tried "16%"

if i set it to 200 al the text wraps except for the long url's (that's how I found the problem)

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[vbkris]

>>Clarkin: That isn't a bad Idea however the url is tossed into a large memo field with other notes/descriptions. Also its ment to be a printable report so putting a "click here" link wouldn't quite do the trick.

bit more clear?

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[TruthInSatire]

vbkris:
The data is coming out of a memo field in a database. so it the information in the out put could be somthing like
"this is the description for this application. Its pretty neat and does some cool stuff, here is more information concerning this application:

http://www.oracle.com/ultrasearch/w...opic=Select+a+Topic&p_Group=1&p_Group=4"

everything in the &quot;&quot;'s needs to be visible in the printed report. (Printed i.e. hardcopy) i've tried a replace function to change &quot;&&quot; to &quot;&<br>&quot; but now the problem is i get out put like:

http://search.hp.com/gwuseng/query.html?qt=scanjet+utilities&

col=hpcom+ccen+ccenfor&
qs=&
qc=&
la=en&
qm=0&
st=1&
lk=1&
rf=0&
uf=1

and I found another long link with no &quot;&&quot; in it:

http://www.cant.show.you/this.link/...71449ca8693938ea8525693b0058dac0?OpenDocument

causing the cell to stretch from:
http:// to the ?



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[Wullie]

What about displaying it in a textarea and adjusting the height of that dynamically to fit the content?

Also, not totally sure about the cross-browser nature of this but what about replacing slashes in long url's with %2f

IE wraps a long url at a few different characters and a % sign is one of them. The url would still be valid.

Hope this helps

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