Re: Splitting up long URLs

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 13:26 -0700, Brian Dunning wrote: > I have a web page that lists "most recent comments" in a left margin. > Sometimes people post long URLs, or even just really really long > words, that force that margin to display way too wide, screwing up the > page layout. Is there a way to make sure URLs or other text in a > string gets split up so this doesn't happen? > > If there's a CSS solution that's better than a PHP solution I'll take > that too. :-) You need to manually chop them. The wordwrap() function should be able to do it for you. Although, you'll have issues with HTML if I recall correctly. CSS will not do it for you unless you want to have overflow and either hide the overflow or have scrollbars appear. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP