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How to wrap formated contents in a cell?

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Apr 26.2006

Hi, there:

I’m a newbie, and I haven’t found the answer yet. ?

My question is:
I want to display contents retrieved from database (e.g. in a BBS) in a table cell that has fixed width. How can I “add newline characters” to lines that exceed the width, while preserving the format of the contents?

Thank you very much!

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@felgallApr 26.2006 — HTML will add the new lines for you as required.
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@luckybirdauthorApr 27.2006 — Thank you, Stephen.

But, do I have to use JavaScript function to achieve that?
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@felgallApr 27.2006 — No. Just have the server side processing that is retrieving the content from the database put it where you want it and the browser should take care of the rest.
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@luckybirdauthorApr 27.2006 — Ok, as the tests turned out, that's the case when you don't set the fixed width of the table cell so that the cell can stretch itself to fix the content.

But when you set the fixed width of table cells, problems come:

  • 1. If you use <pre></pre> to preserve the context's format, long text lines can never be split to meet the width of the cell. Instead, they are truncated.


  • 2. If you do NOT use <pre></pre>, new line chars are added automatically to long text lines. However, you've lost the original format of the text (e.g. newline chars).


    • So, what should I do?
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    @luckybirdauthorApr 28.2006 — can someone help me?
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