[thelist] link no wrap

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 04:51:15 CDT 2005


> > anybody have a way to make sure this links wraps - css
> > or old html (anything)
> > http://sipphone.com/badhtml/
>
> It may seem facile to suggest this, but could you perhaps shorten the link
> text itself? If you need to show the text to differentiate it from other
> links (such as to show a filename), could you just show the significant
> portion of the filename?
> For example, you might have the date on the end:
>
> a_really_long_file_name_which_was_produced_on_20050901.html
> a_really_long_file_name_which_was_produced_on_20050902.html
> a_really_long_file_name_which_was_produced_on_20050903.html
>
> You could shorten this to
> a_really--_20050901.html
>
> This wouldn't really work for user-generated filenames, but there again you
> could perhaps impose a limit.

For the occassions where you cannot do that, I did a small script you could use:
http://www.onlinetools.org/tools/shortlinks/


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