Hey Thierry, thanks for your help. I'll try that out asap. Vince
On 27/02/2008, Thierry Koblentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > discuss.org] On Behalf Of Jukka K. Korpela > > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:55 PM > > To: 'css-d' > > Subject: Re: [css-d] forcing a <a> tag to wrap within a table > > > > Thierry Koblentz wrote: > > > > >> Of vincent pollard > > >> > > >> i have a table with a bunch of links in it, <a> tags. > > >> one of the links is long and has no spaces so the <a> tag is pushing > > >> out the table beyond it's set width. > > >> how do i force the <a> to wrap? > > > > > > You can plug a WBR element in the URL: > > > > Which URL? I saw no URL (though I asked for one). You seem to assume > > that the link texts are URL, and this might be the case (it's not > > uncommon to use URLs as link texts), but then the answer is probably > > that the link texts should be rewritten. > > A long string of text if you prefer, the "URL" was just a guess. I think > it > is just more common to have this issue with URLs. > (I'm not really sure it really matters for the OP though). > > > When a table cell contains a longish string with no spaces in them, it > > is generally not a good idea to try to set the cell width smaller than > > needed for the string. At the abstract level, there is no way to decide > > where the string could be broken; it depends on the string and its > > meaning. > > It is not always possible to predict the length of a string that will be > plugged in a cell (CMS, etc.) > When there is a good chance that a container can contain such string > (URLs, > etc.), a script can plug WBRs every X characters (the string won't break > at > every occurrence). > > > Interesting. It does work (on Opera 9.10 at least). But as such, <wbr> > > is a non-CSS method for doing things (and generally the only practical > > way when you wish to permit line breaks inside a string that would not > > otherwise be broken). > > It's not kosher, but it works until we can use word-wrap:break-word; > > -- > Regards, > Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- Vincent Pollard http://www.ithinkx.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
