[thelist] RE: HTML/ASP question

Ornstein, Ian IanOrnstein at NC.SLR.com
Thu Oct 4 08:12:14 CDT 2001


If you have specifed a width for the table cell then
you can use 
     strTemp = Left(strYourString,intCellWidth*chars/pixels) 
     Reponse.Write (strTemp) 'into the table cell.
If you do not limit the length of th text then
it will wrap and create another line in the table

Let us know how it works out...
-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Nabring-Stager [mailto:jnabring at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 3:17 PM
To: the list
Subject: [thelist] [thelist]HTML/ASP question


Hi all-
A strange theoretical question in HTML/ASP-land...
Can you somehow, through scripting, indicate when a table cell has
reached a maximum width?  For example, you are filling up a table
cell with some database results that are long and just want to give
your viewers a teaser.  Once you reach the maximum width, you'd want
to cut off listing the results and have a link like "See more
results."
Is this possible?  If so, any ideas on how to approach this are of
course welcome :)
TIA-

Oh, and here's a tip to make up for the last time/for the
future/because I actually have one!

<tip>
When working with an Access database and ASP, using Response.Write in
a table cell, watch out for the <PRE> tag.  Your data won't wrap
nicely in the cell; instead, it will print out on one line as <PRE>
tells the browser to print exactly as formatted.
</tip> 

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Janet Nabring-Stager
http://www10.ewebcity.com/jnabring

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