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how to stop a cell or table from expanding

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:46 am
by adsegzy
Pls how do i stop my table or cells from expanding.

regards

Re: how to stop a cell or table from expanding

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:53 pm
by Jonah Bron
Perhaps you could clarify your question more.

Re: how to stop a cell or table from expanding

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:53 pm
by adsegzy
what i mean is that i have a table with some number of cells. whenever the content is echoed some cell will expand beyond their normal sizes. how do i stop the cells from expanding?

Re: how to stop a cell or table from expanding

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:41 pm
by Jonah Bron
How do you want to stop it? Do you want the text to wrap? Do you want to cut off the excess?

Re: how to stop a cell or table from expanding

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:00 pm
by adsegzy
i will like to wrap in some cases and i will like to cut off text in other cases

Re: how to stop a cell or table from expanding

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:58 am
by Jonah Bron
You can use CSS to set that. The overflow property is what you need.

http://www.css3.com/css-overflow/