Posted by Dominik Jain on 08/03/05 14:15

dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>> <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.

While that is an obvious solution, I cannot do that, because the data in the
table comes from a database, and I do not know where the browser is going to
insert the soft line break.

The question is: Can I do something to make a soft line break inserted by
the browser have the same effect as a hard line break.

bye,

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Dominik Jain
http://home.cs.tum.edu/~jain

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