Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/02/06 16:44

jojo wrote:
> Sorry, didn't get your point yet.
>
> himanshupoddar@gmail.com wrote:
>> i hv made a table and it gets data from my database,
>
> What database? How does the table get the data?
>
>> and has used word wrapping so that table column remain in fixed size.
>
> Guess you mean the CSS
> word-wrap:break-word

word-wrap, hmmm that's a new one on me. Don't know of any CSS property
'word-wrap', 'white-space' I believe is what you mean, else it's some MS
proprietary junk. If so, it would be okay for a Windows apps but not a
web page.

>
>> it works well till my data doesnt hv spaces in it but when spaces
> > included the size of the column expands, i dont want to trim the
> > size of the data itself becoz i want uses to see whole of the data
> > in tooltip.

This question gets asked nearly a million times, you cannot force
hyphenation of words with HTML, you must do it with your script as you
parse the query results.

Tooltip eh? The only way I know of a browser showing a tooltip is when
your set the element's 'title' attribute but one must note that long
strings are truncated by user agents, and the length of which is *very*
browser depended. Title tooltips are *not* a very good location for
important data. You could use a JavaScript generated tooltip, but one
must understand that is also not dependable for important data.



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