Attack of the stretching table

[john8675309]

I am working on a simple e-mail reader I got that done but when I go to view the e-mail I trap it in a table. Well my table tag looks like this

<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="AutoNumber1"
height="356">

<td width=100%><pre><font face="Verdana">

How can I lock my table so it never stretched past that no matter what width I use the table streteches is there a word wrap for a table or something?

John

[frigidman]

You could use Width="400", or some "pixel number" instead of the 100% number. 100% means stretch it as far as allowed. While pixel numbers mean stretch it only X pixels.

PS: height tags in tables using 'pixel numbers' are mostly misinterpretted in various browsers. I think only one browser in the world actually honors the height tag "correctly" with pixel numbers (most all are ok with a percentage, but that is as well rare). So, that might be something you may consider just leaving out, as it doesn't do much anyway.

[john8675309]

Even when I do

<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"  bordercolor="#111111" width="100">

<td width = "100"><pre><font face="Verdana">

is still stretches that table

[mrmufin]

The larger problem is that you're trying to shtick <pre>text-stuff</pre> into the table...

You may be able to get around this by putting the table inside another table:

<table width="400">
<tr>
<td width="400">
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
<pre>....</pre>
<td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

If this does work, remember it's a kludge, and results may vary over browsers and platforms. Much better to take away the <pre></pre> tags...

[frigidman]

As mrmufin said about the PRE... if you MUST have the pre in there, then you could (if you are using php to generate this) fiddle with the function "word_wrap()". That would put hard returns (or whatever you specify) into the the text so it wouldn't stretch the table out due to the PRE.

[john8675309]

ok now that works but now I loose my formatting for the e-mails I just got rid of the pre tags now it looks like

################## LogWatch 3.3 Begin ##################### ---------------- Connections (secure-log) Begin ------------------- New Users: abuse(1015) mail-abuse(1016) help(1017) Connections: Service imapd: 1000@127.0.0.1: 42 Time(s) Service in.telnetd: : 3 Time(s) 0@192.168.1.106: 1 Time(s) Service popa3d: : 15 Time(s) Service in.comsat: : 15 Time(s) Unmatched Entries su[12108]: + pts/0 john-root su[17001]: + pts/0 john-root ----------------- Connections (secure-log) End -------------------- --------------------- sendmail Begin ------------------------ 4320 bytes transferred 16 messages sent Unmatched Entries gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.101) failed: 1: 1 Time(s) ---------------------- sendmail End ------------------------- ------------------ Fortune -------------------- The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. -- Doctor Who, "Face of Evil" ###################### LogWatch End #########################

when I get an e-mail. if I add the <pre> back in then it formats it but I loose my sized table. Any ideas?

John
code for the whole script

<table width="1000" border ="2">
<tr>
<td width="100%">
<table width="100%" border="1" nowrap>
<tr>
<td width="700">
<?
// if multipart, display text sections
if(is_array($sections))
{
        for($x=0; $x<sizeof($sections); $x++)
        {
                if(($sections[$x]["type"] == "text/plain" || $sections[$x]["type"] ==
"message/rfc822") && $sections[$x]["disposition"] != "attachment")
                {
                echo htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(trim(imap_fetchbody($inbox, $id,
$sections[$x]["pid"]))));
                echo "<br>";
                }
        }
}
else
{
echo htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(trim(imap_body($inbox, $id))));
}
// if attachments exist
if (is_array($attachments))
{
?>
<tr>
<td valign=top><font face="Verdana" size="-1"><b>Attachments:
</b></font></td>
<td valign=top><font face="Verdana" size="-1"><ul>
<?
        // display as list
        for($x=0; $x<sizeof($attachments); $x++)
        {
                echo "<li><a href=download.php?id=$id&pid=" . $attachments[$x]["pid"] .
">" . $attachments[$x]["name"] . " (" . ceil($attachments[$x]["size"]/1024)
. " KB)</a>";

    }

?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

<?
}
?>

</table>

[fuji]

Here's something you could try...

edit: I also noticed that your table has a width of 1000. Isn't that kinda large? maybe it was just a typo 🙂
edit2: try to avoid mixing percentages and pixels as width's in the same table....

//snipped from your code..... 

$themessage =  htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(trim(imap_fetchbody($inbox, $id,$sections[$x]["pid"]))));

$themessage = nl2br($themessage);
$themessage = str_replace('<br>','<br />',$themessage);

echo $themessage.' <br />';

Hope this helps....