Posted by Ben C on 12/08/06 10:01

On 2006-12-09, User <user@email> wrote:
> Thanks for replying..
>
> I have set
> style="table-layout:fixed; "

You shouldn't need that as well as the widthed <div> inside the <td>.

> but under the cell:
>
> <td ><div style="width:250px;
> overflow:visible"><%=rs("title")%></div></td>
>
> The contents of the cell overflows to other areas. i want it to be able to
> be trapped in the div cell...if the contents hits the edge of the cell, it
> will automatically be bring down to the next line...as if there is a line
> break

There's no way to force line-breaks except at proper line-breaking
points in CSS 2.1 or in most browsers, although IE has a proprietary
property for it (something like word-wrap: break-word).

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