[SOLVED] how to keep text within a certain area

[DeanWhitehouse]

i have a piece of text in a variable(which people can edit)

this text needs to be displayed down the page and should stay within the bounderies i set, but it isn't. here are some snippets from my code.

$intro = "Welcome, this is a test of the sites features.Please go to the admin centre to cutomise the site.";

<p class="welcome"><?php echo"$intro"; ?></p>

 

p.welcome
{
color:#000;
font-size:14px;
text-align:center;
margin-left:425px;
margin-top:40px;
width:400px;
border:ridge #0000FF;
}

[rarebit]

That works for me?

<style type='text/css'>
p.welcome
{
color:#000;
font-size:14px;
text-align:center;
margin-left:425px;
margin-top:40px;
width:400px;
border:ridge #0000FF;
}
</style>

[DeanWhitehouse]

this is the site, you can see that it isn't working and what it is doing wrong.

http://deanwhitehouse.awardspace.co.uk/home.php

with ********* it does what you see on the page, and if i use words like "thisistext" it does work, why is this??

[rarebit]

The css stuff works for me(using Firefox), hmmmm i've just looked at the source to see your DTD, and if you look you have two whole pages in it... i'd have a revamp there...

 

 

As for the long word (*'s) look at wordwrap

[DeanWhitehouse]

ok, i tried the wordwrap code, and it doesn't seem to apply wrap to the second line.

 

$intro = "Welcome, this is a test of the sites features.Please go to the admin centre to cutomise the site.TEXTTEXTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXT";
$welcome = wordwrap($intro, 60, "<br />\n");


<p class="welcome"><?php echo"$welcome"; ?></p>

[rarebit]

This single line:

site.TEXTTEXTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXT

is only 56 chars long, your wrapping at 60!

[DeanWhitehouse]

yer, that was a mistake, i have now got it at 30 but and still having the same error

[rarebit]

mmm, I didn't read the man page... the second example uses 'true' to break long words...

$welcome = wordwrap($intro, 60, "<br />\n", true);