Re: Controlling length of table data
| From: | Johan Holst Nielsen | Date: | Thu, 15 Nov 2001 06:13:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Controlling length of table data | ||
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> This is really a combination html/php question, I believe. The problem is
> that I have a table that displays a field of text that can be several
> hundred bytes long. If, however, someone holds down a key and produces
> 500
> letter 'x' the table data then distorts the table! Since the length of
> the data needs to be several hundred bytes, is there someway to either
> control the table data width so that the length of a non breaking string
> of characters will not distort the table, or is there a php string
> function to break the sentence into words and then I'd have to build some
> logic to test the length?
Use wordwrap() ?
Regards,
Johan