On 5 Sep 2005, at 6:21 am, Stuart Homfray wrote:
Christian Heilmann wrote:
On 9/3/05, Stuart Homfray wrote:
I'm having a spot of trouble with the Safari browser and the
overflow:hidden declaration when applied to table cells.
...
have you tried setting the TDs as block?
Thanks for the response Chris, but if you do that, the cells will
simply behave as block elements and appear one above the next (which
they do on both Firefox and Safari if you add this declaration - no
surprise that IE still works though!! :)
Your suggestion led me to trying display:inline-block and this (on
Safari) stretched each table cell to accomodate it's contents (giving
an unusual 'staggered' effect - each row measuring as wide as it's
total contents!) By the way, Firefox and IE ignored this one.
It is a known weakness in Safari; there is currently no way to apply
the overflow-property to table elements.
And changing the display value of the table-cell won't work, because
then it is not a table-cell anymore !
One thing you can try, is playing with the css3 'word-wrap' property
[1].
According to an Apple document [2], this is supported by Safari (1.3 +
only ?), confirmed by a quick test.
So, this:
p.abx {word-wrap:break-word;}
ought to solve the problem for Safari (the long words will wrap in your
tds, instead of overflowing to the next td.
(this is supported by IE win as well, so hide it if needed).
One thing, though: it doesn't work in combination with
'white-space:nowrap'. That makes sense in a way.
Let us know how it turns out.
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Safari 1.3 also supports 'text-overflow' (see the list in [2]). This
would probably be even better. I didn't find any reference to the
correct syntax, though.
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[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#word-wrap>
[2]
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/
SafariCSSRef/index.html>
Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
<http://emps.l-c-n.com/>
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