RE: [PHP] splitting content into pages

ok let me explain , its straight up text content from the database , say its scrolls for ages , i need to split it into pages , so i get the length of the string up to the last paragraph which fits i need to split it there any idea ? > daniel@electroteque.org <mailto:daniel@electroteque.org> > on Wednesday, July 30, 2003 6:35 PM said: > >> hi there , i have an issue trying to split content into pages , we >> have a popup with content and a background image with a set height , >> when there is more content the background repeats , theoretically i'd >> want to split the content into pages after a given length or line >> length or where it meets the background image height how can i do this >> ? > > This can be easy. > > 1. Make sure the content does not adjust itself based on the size of > the browser window. That is to say that the space that contains the > content should be a fixed width. > > 2. Then you need to calculate how many words you can legitimately fit > into this fixed space without going over. > > If you 150 words will fit in the space but go right up to the very edge > and are almost spilling into a new "page" you should pull the number of > words back to 120 or something to try and make sure that the text will > not spill over. > > You can be more precise if you use a fixed width font like Courier New. > If you use a variable width font (not sure if that is the technical > term) you'll have to do a little more guessing because 10 i's are not > the same width as 10 w's. > > > hth, > chris. > > p.s. There is no space before a comma!