HTML question: how to limit max width of table columns

marcnyc

Hi, this is really an HTML question but I don't know of any HTML forums like PHPBuilder for PHP and I am looking for a solution to this problem for one of my PHP projects so I guess I hope you'll feel like helping out anyway.
I have a PHP form that, according to user-submitted inputs, spits out a table with text values. Because this table has to be printed and MUST fit into one page and MUST keep a definite width (overall and of the single colums) I would like to know if you know about way to tell the table not to get bigger or to tell the table's colums not to get wider even if the text is too long... in other words, if a word is longer than the table width I want the word to be wrapped with a "-" sign, as opposed to push the column out and make it wider, which changes the entire table's aspect. I hope I made myself clear. Thanks.

planetsim

Hope that helps

marcnyc

It doesn't actually. I do know how to set the width of a table or of a column, but in my case I have set the table to a definite width in pixels and I have set the columns of the table to a definite width in pixels and I want them to keep that, regardless of the text which will be in the cells... Do you know what I mean?

LordShryku

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

marcnyc

That's an idea that helps me... Is there any way to make wordwrap() work in a grammatically correct fashion so that

unfortunately

does become

unfor-
tuna-
tely

and not

unfo-
rtun-
atel-
y

???

drag0n

str_replace()

marcnyc

str_replace doesn't possibly have a vocabulary built in now, does it?

drag0n

nothing is that easy 🙂