Posted by dorayme on 08/03/05 03:34

> From: "Dominik Jain" <djain@gmx.net>
>
> Hi!
>
> Browsers resize a table to fit the content - that's generally a good idea.
> However, when the text in one cell is so long that it is wrapped, sometimes,
> the table does not need to be resized as much as it generally is.
> Consider the following example:
>
> <div style="width:100px; font-size:10px;
> font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">
> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
> <tr><td>some<br>long text</td><td>bar</td></tr>
> </table>
> <br>
> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
> <tr><td>some long text</td><td>bar</td></tr>
> </table>
> </div>
>
> In all the browsers I've tested, the first table was clearly less wide
> because the line break is a hard one rather than a soft one.
> I wonder, is there a way to modify this behaviour in order to make the
> second table appear in the same way as the first one?
>
>

In the 2nd table, use <br> after the word "Some" and it will behave just
like the first table.

dorayme

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