[thelist] 1-line cells in tables

Michael Galvin mpgalvin at eircom.net
Fri May 12 17:27:53 2000


Hi all

I'm creating a table from a database, which will act as a report on the data
in the database.  I know how long each field in the table is, but I don't
know what resolution the user will have.  So I'm using <table width="100%">
and various percentages for each row to make sure it fills the entire width.
However, if the user has a smaller resolution than my own, I don't want the
table to start word-wrapping lines - I want it to truncate them, so rather
than

-------------------------------------------------
1  |   This is a long description of |          12/3/00
   |   the project                       |
-------------------------------------------------

I want

-------------------------------------------------
1  |   This is a long description of |          12/3/00
-------------------------------------------------

Of course, I will only need to do this if the resolution is so small as to
warrent it.  Any ideas?

TIA
Michael Galvin

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