oceans Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 I have developed codes in php. I read and display data from MySQL. I noted that when the length of the data (sentence length) is wider than the table’s cell’s width, the cell gets wider at run time. How can I make the width stay and allow the height of the cell to grow to accommodate long sentence. Widening of cell is unsightly. Thanks. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136921-solved-how-can-i-make-the-width-stay-and-allow-the-height-of-the-cell-to-grow/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtopolis Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 You can try adding this CSS to your display area: overflow: auto; (or other variants http://www.w3schools.com/Css/pr_pos_overflow.asp) If that is not what you want, you will have to use javascript/php to trim the line lengths and split the content so that it doesn't go over a set character count. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136921-solved-how-can-i-make-the-width-stay-and-allow-the-height-of-the-cell-to-grow/#findComment-715460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oceans Posted December 15, 2008 Author Share Posted December 15, 2008 Thanks, I tried your suggestion, it does not work. I have to mention, all my formatting of pages are based on tables and tables in tables. If I need to do php codes for each cell "I will die" because I have an assorment of cells in many pages. Is there a auto word wrap or a way to force fix the width and loosen up the height. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136921-solved-how-can-i-make-the-width-stay-and-allow-the-height-of-the-cell-to-grow/#findComment-715524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtopolis Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 I'm not sure of a way to do this with CSS... especially with tables. Like I said, perhaps you could use php or javascript to format the text to a set width... but otherwise, I'm not sure. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136921-solved-how-can-i-make-the-width-stay-and-allow-the-height-of-the-cell-to-grow/#findComment-715538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oceans Posted December 15, 2008 Author Share Posted December 15, 2008 Thanks, Can we tell the page hey don't widen the cell for any reason. Sorry don't mistake me, writing a script for this may be a bit too much, ok I am lazy; not really, I have many combinations of cell widths and pages. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136921-solved-how-can-i-make-the-width-stay-and-allow-the-height-of-the-cell-to-grow/#findComment-715612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonMariner Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 does this widening get corrected on final render? ie is it just the browser displaying things until its worked out what dimensions to give elements? if not and you want certain elements to have a fixed width, give them a fixed width. the only time when this would possibly fall over is when the content does not permit wrapping. eg an image that is wider than the specified width of textual content with no breaking spaces in it or if you have inadvertently placed white-space: no-wrap on an element that affects this portion of layout. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136921-solved-how-can-i-make-the-width-stay-and-allow-the-height-of-the-cell-to-grow/#findComment-716370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroNiX Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 with css you can set a width to the <td> like: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <style> table td { width:50px; } </style> </head> <body> <table> <tr><td>test 1</td><td>test 2 test 2 test 2</td></tr> </table> </body> </html> results in: test 2 test 1 test 2 test 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136921-solved-how-can-i-make-the-width-stay-and-allow-the-height-of-the-cell-to-grow/#findComment-716389 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oceans Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 I thank both of you, you people are right, I am trying to get away with the no space long sentence, I have no image, so image is not really an issue for me, but thanks for the note. I tried the following, it works, but strangely enough, if I use any other name other than "div", it does not work, I can't understand. I am trying to create more functions, so that I will have a few cells taken care of respectively. <style type="text/css"> div { background-color:#00FFFF; width:150px; height:150px; overflow: scroll } </style> CroNix, i will try your suggestion as well. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136921-solved-how-can-i-make-the-width-stay-and-allow-the-height-of-the-cell-to-grow/#findComment-716395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oceans Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 Xtopolis, I am half way through your suggestion, I think I can get away with my problem with your suggestion, can you comment on the "div" thing... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136921-solved-how-can-i-make-the-width-stay-and-allow-the-height-of-the-cell-to-grow/#findComment-716409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtopolis Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Using a div instead of a table cell? <div style="width: 100px; overflow: auto;"> test test test test test testtesttesttesttesttestesttesttesttesttesttestesttesttesttesttesttestesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttest </div> Look at that (by itself) and you'll see it add scroll bars for overflowing content... You can even fake some tables using divs if you want.. depends on how you want to display your data. Got an example online? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136921-solved-how-can-i-make-the-width-stay-and-allow-the-height-of-the-cell-to-grow/#findComment-716442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oceans Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 Thanks Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136921-solved-how-can-i-make-the-width-stay-and-allow-the-height-of-the-cell-to-grow/#findComment-716476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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