fix table width, avoid trouble makers?

[midnite]

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Oh !! This forum has cut the length by PHP ==is it possible for not cutting it in server side, i want the text wraps accordingly to the window or a specific width in the client side. It will be nice

[aspnetguy]

if you do

<table style="width:500px">....

It will wrap the text for you.

[justsomeguy]

You can detect what the size of the browser window is with Javascript. Here is some information about it:http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/jav...t/browserwindowIf you want to do that, you will need to develop an algorithm to detect how much of the window your text box has, how big the font size is, if the text is bold, if there are images or other elements taking up space, and then how many letters you want to let through on one line. It's no easy task.Or, for any dynamic content, you can use PHP to split the text up by word, and for words longer then X number of characters, insert a space in them or something.