[thelist] Dotted line to fill table cell?
Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
Sun Mar 10 22:08:01 CST 2002
Rachel-
If you don't have the option of using some sort of image with some
server-side width= magic, you could perhaps try using a fixed-width font and
javascript to count the number of characters filling the first portion of
the table cell, then tack on the difference in dots. Example...
String in cell:
var strItem = "Blah this is a string";
String in cell's length (21 chars):
var strItemLen = strItem.length;
Total width of table cell in characters:
var intTotalLen = 50;
Figure out how many dots we need to add on:
var intDotsToAdd = intTotalLen - strItemLen;
Compose and write the new string:
var strNewItem = strItem;
for(var i=0; i<intDotsToAdd; i++){
strNewItem += ".";
}
document.writeln("<TD>" + strNewItem + "</TD>");
Of course this might be totally impossible given the fact that I'm not sure
of your exact situation, but it may be a starter!
Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
http://www.330i.net
>I'm looking for a way to fill the remaining space in a table cell >with a
>dotted line - using html/css.. any pointers much appreciated..
>Rachel
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