[thelist] nowrap no way no how

Ben Henick persist1 at io.com
Mon Feb 11 14:13:01 CST 2002


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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