[thelist] nowrap no way no how

Matt mspiegler at lightbulbpress.com
Mon Feb 11 14:26:00 CST 2002


The problem with that is that these are going to be massive grids of data, so
I can't stick each and every TD inside a DIV.

Ben Henick wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Matt wrote:
>
> > Is there a way, via CSS, to get a table cell to never wrap, no matter
> > what, and not to enlarge the table either? Sound impossible, I know, but
> > what I'd really like is for the table cell to cut off the overrun text,
> > like a grid in an app does. This only needs to work in PC/IE. Any
> > suggestions? :)
>
> Put the TD contents inside of a DIV, and set width, height, and overflow
> properties for that DIV.
>
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