Justin, I did something _sort of like_ this. I have a page that asks users to check from a list of items. The number of items varies based on a value selected on a previous page. I do a query for the items. I count the number, divide by three, and then have start and stop values for the first, second, and third third of the list. Then I create a single-row, three-column table, inside each cell of which appears a table with a CFQUERY-wrapped table row. Because I did the math in advance, it all works out.
Your question adds a wrinkle to the problem: how do you deal with the issue of wrapping? Hmmm. I'll be honest that it's a tough one. I can think of really nasty ways to loop through the text you have, breaking it into lines as you go based on number of spaces, counting those lines, etc., but that's going to be rotten even if it works at all. Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmmmmmm. Yeah. It's awfully ugly. But here goes: You pull the whole long text into one variable (I don't even know if there is a variable in which such long text will fit. You do an outer loop that goes from character 1 to character n (the last character in the string), stepping by the length of characters you want to allow in a line of text within a column. You probably will have to use a fixed-width font, or make the length of chars for a row small enough to handle the widest chars. An inner loop then goes backward from that point until it finds a space character, and replaces the character with some list separator. Let's say | for now. Then you have a delimited list of lines. You count the number of list items, divide by three, use the above-described table structure, and loop through the list for output. Like I said, ugly. But maybe it will give you an idea for a better solution? I hope so. Matthieu -----Original Message----- From: Justin Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 3:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: 3 column output Ok, here is a good one for ya. I have a database of stories and they want to display it in the browser as a 3 column, "newspaper style" display. How does the all mighty group think this could be accomplished. How could one get a story to wrap from Column 1 to 2 and 3 with HTML Tables? Is this type of linked tables available in Flash MX? Anyone... Anyone.... Justin Hansen -------------------------- Uhlig Communications Systems Engineer -------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 913-754-4273 -------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
