I needed to do something kinda like that with a form field, where some text needed to be right aligned with the right end of a text field (hundreds of instances). I was able to tease out the length of the form fields with JavaScript and use that measurement to the text. I am not sure that will do what you need it to do but I thought I would throw it out there as a possible way to approach the problem. Let me know and I can dig up the code for that in the morning.
G! On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Jacobs <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to take a piece of a longer text and display it so that it is > exactly 4 lines long and 200 pixels wide. If I use the regular text string > functions (right, left, mid, etc.) I can create 4 lines with a certain > number of characters, but depending on the text, sometimes they are too long > or so short that I could have fit another word on the line. Is there a > function that takes into account the actual linear length in pixels of a > line of text formatted in the current style? Also the original text could > have HTML codes in it, so I would want to ignore these when selecting the > text so that I don't count non-displaying characters or leave open ended > HTML in my page. > > If I have the wrong approach, any guidance would be appreciated. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318709 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
