Re: text wrap in table

From: Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 07:29:42 +0000
Subject: Re: text wrap in table
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Hi, I got the answer from one earlier mail. I used nl2br(). It does just what I want. Adrian On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Adrian D'Costa wrote: > Hi, > > I am creating a program for a newspaper to publish their article > online. There is a form what allows them to cut and past from their > editors (word, pagemaker, staroffice). The data is being entered > correctly. > > The problem is when I try and get the data from the table the whole matter > scrolls off the screen. I need it to be formatted as the client cut and > pastes it (headings, paras, etc). Below is my table and part of my > program. > > mysql> desc newsarticles; > +----------+--------------+------+-----+------------+----------------+ > | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | > +----------+--------------+------+-----+------------+----------------+ > | id | int(5) | | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | > | nid | int(5) | | MUL | 0 | | > | headline | varchar(100) | | | | | > | article | mediumtext | | | | | > | date | date | | | 0000-00-00 | | > | imgpath | varchar(200) | YES | | NULL | | > +----------+--------------+------+-----+------------+----------------+ > > <html> > <head> > <title><? echo $row->headline; ?></title> > </head> > > <body bgcolor="white"> > <h1 align="center"><? echo $row->headline; ?></h1> > <h3 align="center"><? echo $row->description; ?></h3> > <table width="600" border="1"> > <tr> > <td valign="top" width="70%"><font > face="Arial" size="2" color="blue"><strong><? echo > $sd ."-". $sm > ."-". $sy; ?></strong><br><pre><? echo $row->article; > ?></pre></font></td> > <td valign="top" width="30%"><img src="<? > echo > $row->imgpath; ?>" <? echo $iwh[3]; ?> ></td> > </tr> > </table> > </body> > </html> > > > I use the <pre></pre> to display with the line breaks. If I take of the > <pre> it does not wrap but does not give the breaks. To my thinking maybe > while entering the data we should give break the lines physically. This > is part of my entry form. > > <tr> > <td><font face="Arial" > size="2">HeadLine</font></td> > <td><input type="text" name="headline" > size="30"> > </tr> > > <tr> > <td><font face="Arial" > size="2">Article</font></td> > <td><textarea name="article" cols="60" > rows="10"></textarea></td> > </tr> > > <tr> > <td><font face="Arial" size="2">Upload > Image</font></td> > <td><input type="file" name="userfile" size="30" > wrap=ON></td> > </tr> > <tr align="center"> > <td colspan="2"><input type="submit" > value="Submit"></td> > </tr> > > > How do I get the text not to wrap and to preserve the formatting given by > the client. > > Adrian > >

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