Javier, > how can i make a table cell force the text to wrap within the cell's > given size despite the content of the cell having long words, even > longer than the column? This may not be the best answer, but one option is to use the proprietary CSS property, "word-break: break-all;". Currently, this is IE 5+ only [1], but it is also part of the W3C CSS 3 "Text" module working draft [2], meaning it will likely be officially adopted at some point in the near future. James Aylard 1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/wordbre ak.asp 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-i18n-format/#word-break