handling input from form?

nolimitman

after inserting a record into my database my table holding the textarea gets
expanded, im using a hmtl form to send the info to the database and it works but it doesnt look good when the textarea table gets all messed up. My problem is that the input to the database dont display good in the table.
How do i avoid this happening? Is it done with text css or cani format the table so
it doesnt expand and sort the text in lines.

bradgrafelman

If I understand you correctly, you have a table cell which holds the data, but that the data is stretching the width of the cell?

If you're using PHP to output the data, you make look into using a function such as [man]wordwrap/man.

If you'd rather use CSS, I've recently posted a solution using the "word-wrap" property on a fixed-width object.

nolimitman

thanksalot for your answer, i actually solved the problem yesterday by putting another table into the other one but maybe wordwrap is the right way
to do it? Where do i put the wordwrap code? Can i put it inside the table or
do the wordwrap code go in the body or somewhere else to controll the whole page?

bradgrafelman

If you're referring to the CSS code, then you'd place it into the CSS stylesheet attached to your page (or in the <head>, if you don't have said CSS stylesheet).

nolimitman

Thanks again for your answer, i was reffering to the php wrap code. Where do i put it? In the table?

Kudose

You'd use it on the text.

http://us.php.net/wordwrap