[thelist] Forcing wrap in table cells

Joshua OIson joshua at alphashop.net
Wed Jan 31 21:50:48 CST 2001


I've never heard of <WBR>  I tried it and it didn't work too well in ie 5.0
(it did nothing) so I looked it up.  It only has effect inside a <nobr> tag.
I may end up using this one some time.  Thanks for the heads-up!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/WBR.asp

-joshua

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter-Paul Koch" <gassinaumasis at hotmail.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Forcing wrap in table cells


>
>
> >Is there an attribute to force a table cell to wrap after so many pixels,
> >even if the someone tried to fill it with hundreds of characters and no
> >space?
>
> No.
>
> You might try to use the old <WBR> tag, which means "If the browser
wishes,
> it may insert a line break here". Put it between every 10 or so characters
> (if that's possible) and it will help a lot.
>
> ppk
>
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