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Is there anyway to prevent a table cell from expanding to fit all the data
in it? i.e the datas 50 char's long but I only want to display the 1st 10
chars?

thanks

harry

harry wrote:
> Is there anyway to prevent a table cell from expanding to fit all the data
> in it? i.e the datas 50 char's long but I only want to display the 1st 10
> chars?

I couldn't get it to work with the td directly, probably because the
table has ideas of its own about its width. But wrapping the content in
a suitable container should work, e.g

p {width:5em; overflow:hidden}

And in CSS there's no unit for the width of a character. But 5em should
be close enough, just adjust the value until you're happy with it.

See <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visufx.html#propdef-overflow> for other
overflow values.


Matthias

Thanks Matt, found this also style="table-layout:fixed;" which displays as
many as possible but chops off the remaining - just what I wanted!

cheers!


"Matthias Gutfeldt" <say-no-to-> wrote in message
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> harry wrote:
> > Is there anyway to prevent a table cell from expanding to fit all the
data
> > in it? i.e the datas 50 char's long but I only want to display the 1st
10
> > chars?
>
> I couldn't get it to work with the td directly, probably because the
> table has ideas of its own about its width. But wrapping the content in
> a suitable container should work, e.g
>
> p {width:5em; overflow:hidden}
>
> And in CSS there's no unit for the width of a character. But 5em should
> be close enough, just adjust the value until you're happy with it.
>
> See <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visufx.html#propdef-overflow> for other
> overflow values.
>
>
> Matthias
>