Wrapping text without spaces?

[topher0303]

How do you get text to wrap that has no spaces? The following html will wrap because it has spaces:

<table style=&quot;table-layout: fixed;&quot;>
<col style=&quot;width: 50px; vertical-align: top;&quot;>
<tr>
<td>1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9, 10</td>
</tr>
</table>

However, remove the spaces as follows and it will not wrap.

<table style=&quot;table-layout: fixed;&quot;>
<col style=&quot;width: 50px; vertical-align: top;&quot;>
<tr>
<td>1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10</td>
</tr>
</table>

Is there a way to force it to wrap even without spaces?

Chris.

 

[mwolf00]

The obvious answer is insert a <br>.

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mikewolf@tst-us.com

 

[topher0303]

The text is user input. There would be now way to determine where to put the <br>. I was thinking about going through the text and adding a space after each comma. However, if the user uses something other than a comma, I would have to search for who knows how many different punctuation characters.

I was just curious if there was a style or something that would cause it to wrap. That is much easier than trying to parse and interpret user input. Most windows apps will wrap in this manner that accept user input.

Chris.

 

[mwolf00]

Is the user allowed unlimited length? Is it an input box or a textarea? In a textarea...

<textarea name=&quot;test&quot; wrap=hard></textarea>

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mikewolf@tst-us.com

 

[topher0303]

The information is input from a textarea and stored in the database. However, the input is not the issue. It is displaying it on the page at a later time. The html I put in the original post is the result that my ASP page produces.

The first example displays the information in the table cell that looks something like this:

1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9,
10

It wraps within the cell. Take the spaces out and it looks like this:

1,2,3,4,

It does not wrap, it is clipped. I was asking if the there is a style that would cause the second example to wrap.

Thanks,
Chris.