HTML :td

[Bruce Easton]

Jose Lerebours wrote Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:33 PM:
> 
> Bruce Easton wrote:
> > Jose Lerebours wrote Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:41 PM:
> > 
> >> What about using <div> within <td> and set the <div> to 
> desired width?  
> >> If a layer is given a fixed width,
> >> it will not expand and force text to wrap.  Of course, you 
> then have to 
> >> set height: auto; for the layer so that
> >> if you require too many lines, the layer expands accordingly.
> >>
> > 
> > I don't think you need div to do that under td - I think you 
> > should just be able to control from the td (let's say you 
> > want a td width of 300px):
> > 
> > html id :td :zz "style='width:300px'" :tx "My text"
> > 
> > or something like that - I only use :tx so I'm not sure of the 
> > fp html syntax above, so I would just write:
> > 
> > html id :tx "<td style='width:300px'>My text</td>"
> > 
> > But, of course, this only gives better control of the width 
> > of the td, and does not address guaranteed breaking of text 
> > after a certain number of source characters, I addressed 
> > in previous post.  
> > 
> > 
> 
> You are right, you do not need to use layers since you could simply set 
> your cell to a fixed width and get the same wrapping effect.  In the 
> same token, inserting a bunch of breaks every 20 chars is going to cause 
> unexpected results when browsers are set with text size larger 
> than normal.
> 
> You may end-up with lines showing like:
> This is the first
> line
> This is the secon
> d line
> This is the third
> line
> This is the forth
> line
> 
[..]
> 
> As you can see, using <br /> is not a good design practice. 
> 
> --
> Jose Lerebours
> 

Yes, I avoid it as well for most applications - we should 
have asked Enrique more about what type of info he was trying 
to display.  Based on the 'every 20 chars,' I assumed he was 
trying to break up a specific string of non-blank characters, 
but he did say 'wrap' which very well may indicate he was OK 
with the browser choosing when to break.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.