Text Wrapping

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I'm sure there is a simple answer for this, but I have not been able to find an answer in the archives.

I have a PHP script that lists customer comments. When viewing customer comments, the comments are displayed in a fixed width table that is 400 pixels wide.

Everything displays correctly, normally, unless the customer puts in a long URL without spaces that is wider than 400 pixels. When this happens, the table is stretched and it throughs off the layout of my web site.

My question is, what can I do to make a long URL "wrap" so that when it reaches 400 pixels wide, the URL is continued on the next line?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

RedDragon

$text = wordwrap($text, 400);

i think this should do what you want

http://www.php.net/manual/de/function.wordwrap.php

wscreate

Originally posted by RedDragon
$text = wordwrap($text, 400);

i think this should do what you want

http://www.php.net/manual/de/function.wordwrap.php

Thanks RedDragon.

For anyone else interested, I found the following in the notes which ultimately was what I was looking for.

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If you're having problems with a small fixed width table/table cell being stretched by people typing entering long text (such as a URL or an email address), then one (MSIE only, unfortunately) solution is to use style="table-layout:fixed" in the <table> tag. This will break any words that would normally expand your table and mess up your layout.

wordwrap() can't help in this situation because you want to wrap if the text is wider than X pixels, rather than X characters, which of course PHP has know way of knowing.

Ex. <table width='450' cellspacing='2' style=\"table-layout:fixed\">