doing up a guestbook....

[flaskvacuum]

right, i got my sign in guestbook done up and got a problem with the view guestbook. If a user happen to type too long on my signGuestBook, the return of the texts on my viewGuestBook cause it to stretch! Thus mess up my layouts. My viewGuestBook is done up in table.

How can i prevent it from stretching and cos it to wrap when being preview on my viewGuestBook.

<table width="396" height="100" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="Table_01">
      <tr>
        <td width="76" height="12"> <img src="images/SBF-GuestBook_08.gif" width="76" height="12" alt=""></td>
        <td width="15"> <img src="images/SBF-GuestBook_09.gif" width="15" height="12" alt=""></td>
        <td width="283"> <img src="images/SBF-GuestBook_10.gif" width="283" height="12" alt=""></td>
        <td width="22"> <img src="images/SBF-GuestBook_11.gif" width="22" height="12" alt=""></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td height="68" valign="top"> <img src="images/SBF-GuestBook_13.gif" width="76" height="68" alt=""></td>
        <td background="images/SBF-GuestBook_14.gif">&nbsp;</td>
        <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
          <tr>
            <td> 

			<?php 
			  		print "Name: <b>".$row["name"]."</b>";
					print " | Email: <b>".$row["email"]."</b>";
			?>

			</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td><?php print "Signed On: <b>".$row["sign_on"]."</b>"; ?></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td><br><?php print nl2br($row["message"]); ?></td>
          </tr>
        </table>

	</td>
    <td background="images/SBF-GuestBook_16.gif">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="19"> <img src="images/SBF-GuestBook_18.gif" width="76" height="19" alt=""></td>
    <td> <img src="images/SBF-GuestBook_19.gif" width="15" height="19" alt=""></td>
    <td> <img src="images/SBF-GuestBook_20.gif" width="283" height="19" alt=""></td>
    <td> <img src="images/SBF-GuestBook_21.gif" width="22" height="19" alt=""></td>
  </tr>
</table>

[Quadodo]

You can use the wordwrap() function, if there message is too long:

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

[hessian]

Which field is giving you the problems their message or their name or other?

In any case, the php answer is substr() and strlen().

substr($row["Name"],0,10);
That will only output the first 10 characters of Name

You may be able to somewhat solve this with the HTML, but I think you only gave us part of your code, it maybe easier to help if we could see the problem in action.

[frost110]

You can always limit the input when the user types it in. Set a javascript warning message or something.

Or if that is not a viable solution, use strlen to "wrap" the text at a certain length.

--FrosT

[flaskvacuum]

Right, thanks Guys for ur valuable input! 😃