Normally I would do that, but in this particular case I was hoping not to use server-side formatting of the content. But it seems I will have to revert to that.
I have never had any use for the <pre> tag. Now I thought I finally had my chance and it turns out to be a really useless tag. DAMN! :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Futter Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 2:33 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] specifying width of <pre> On 25/10/05 1:59 PM, "Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Other than a scroll bar (overflow) there is no solution? > > The reason I need to use <pre> is that the content comes from a > database that doesn't use HTML <br>'s, but normal linebreaks. So to > format the text correctly I need to put it in <pre> tags, but of > course I want it to still fit into the rest of the content. Can you not use PHP to replace the line breaks with <br /> tags? I use something like this: <?php $br = chr(10); //single line feed character (LF) $description = str_replace(chr(10), "<br />\n"); // etc ?> You just need to verify which character your db is using for line breaks (MySQL?). Sorry to the list for straying off-topic, and apologies to Andreas (like the new site mate!) if I'm barking up the wrong tree. -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
