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Apr 18.2008

Hi,

I’ve got a table inside a form. The data comes from a mysql db loaded from php at startup. One of the fields is particularly long and throwing the form off.

All I want is 2 columns, the left is for the label and should be single line and wide enough to fit, the second column is for data and should be a fixed width and spill over to a new line if necessary.

However, what I’m getting is multi-line on the label and overly long lines for the data.

I tried the setting the width attribute of the table, but no luck. I tried setting the width with setAttribute(“width”,800) in javascript, but no luck.

How can I force the table size and column widths?

Thanks!

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@jayw710authorApr 18.2008 — Given the rush of responses ?, I was forced to use a workaround. I placed the long field (a URL) inside of a text field -- here I can control the width. Not what I wanted, but it gets the job done.
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@ray326Apr 19.2008 — I'd probably use a dl/dt/dd for that.
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