Posted by dorayme on 03/23/06 01:50

In article <48cl9kFjfs0eU1@individual.net>,
"Simon" <spambucket@example.com> wrote:

> >
> >> I have a <table style="width:100%"> but when the text is very long, (with
> >> no space), it does not wrap under firefox 1.5, it actually adds a scroll
> >> bar.
> >
> > Correct. It is called WORD wrap, it wraps on work breaks. You need to add
> > word breaks for it to wrap at.
>
> Thnaks for pointing out the WORD wrap, I almost didn't see WORD wrap there.
>
> But, I find it hard to believe that there isn't something to go around only
> WORD wraps.
> Isn't there a css of some sort to enforce the given width of the table even
> if the WORD is wider than the table?
>
> Simon

What do you want to do, let's have a look at the actual long
word(s). There may be ways to solve the prob depending on the
details.

There was a discussion about some gene sequencing text and how
best to represent it in html and css a while back, I forget if it
bore directly on your prob...

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dorayme

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