Text goes on too far..

[forumnz]

I use PHP to get some data from a database and display it. The text that is displayed goes on for too long. How do I use CSS to make it shorter?

 

The div is 150px wide and I want the text to stay within that and not overflow.

 

Thanks,

Sam.

[.josh]

...are you wanting to know how to linebreak it to the next line at 150px wide?

...are you wanting to only display 150px wide worth, truncating the rest off?

[forumnz]

Hi I want to have a line break. How would I do this?

 

Thanks heaps!

Sam.

[haku]

If your text is within a p tag (which it should be), you can do it like this:

 

HTML:

<p id="lorem_text">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.</p>

 

#lorem_text
{
   width: 150px;
   padding: 0;
}

[pquery]

I' d also look at the overflow tag to see if one of those handlers would be a way you'd want to handle you text div

[dbrimlow]

Use PHP.

 

I do this with text that I want to only use @ 210 characters or so (just substitute $yourtextvariable, with  your text variable name):

 

$yourtextvariable = substr($yourtextvariable, 0, 210);

[.josh]

He said he doesn't want to truncate he wants to line break.