HTML Table

smitty77

Okay, I know that this is a dumb question and has nothing to do with PHP, but I know you all can help!

I am trying to display a comments field (mysql: text) in an HTML table that I want to wrap instead of it continuing to run on out the page thus causing you to have to use the horizontal scroll bar. I know this should be simple, but I have been messing with it for a while.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

TheDefender

Hard set the width attribute when you define the table cell...

<TD width="300">Your Text Dump</TD>

Or the better way for future forward compatibility is to define the cell's attributes in CSS to hard set the width.

Your CSS would go something like this:

TD.textdump {
width: 300px;
}

and your HTML would go something like this:

<TD class="textdump">Your Text Dump</TD>

Rodders

Try using the TEXTAREA tag in HTML


<TEXTAREA ROWS=4 COLS=60 NAME='Comments'>
This is the text that appears within the TEXTAREA as a default
</TEXTAREA>

If you ever need HTML help, I find these forums useful.....
http://forums.webdeveloper.com/

.....but PHPBuilder is still best for PHP/MySQL/DB assistance

smitty77

Defender - Rodders,
Thanks for the help! Defender I already tried that and for some crazy reason it was still wanting to expand it out to the end of the line since their is no carriage returns in one of the comments fields.

Rodders, I used the textarea control and it is looking much better. Thanks for the help!

TheDefender

That is odd smitty... Oh well. You know, you can clean up the textarea option a bit with the CSS definitions. You can basically remove the borders, and kind of blend it in with the rest of the page... That's a pretty good idea. I don't think I would have improvised to use the TextArea myself... Sometimes, it is hard to think outside-the-box, and that's the mindset you need for that. Good call Rodders.

smitty77

Defender,
I found the reason why the width property wasn't functioning properly. I call a formatParagraph function that replaces CRLF's with <br> and spaces with   before I insert into MySQL and wasn't calling the unformatParagraph function after retrieving it from MySQL. When I do this it will wrap correctly after it hits the width specified for the column.

I am doing that so they can have it display the way they enter it. Don't know if that is the best way to do that, but it seems to be working great now.

Thanks for all the help!