[SOLVED] My php Variable.

[denoteone]

when I insert my $message into my table for my HTML email I need for the text to wrap. Right now if the message is to big the table just streches with it and puts the text all on one line? this is the table html below.

 

 

<table align="center" border="1" bordercolor="gray" width="400">

[papaface]

This is not PHP, it is a CSS/HTML problem.

[nafetski]

If you're new to programming for the web, I'd highly suggest doing everything with <div> rather than tables.  (You can still use tables for micromanaging certain parts of formatting easier, but divs will give you a lot more control and come in much handier later if you get into any Ajax programming)

 

Right now, just to make things really simple for you - try putting everything that you're doing into a container div.  (think, just a big box that constrains how wide your "page" is)

 

#container 			{
width: 80%;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
margin-top: 50px;
margin-bottom: 50px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding: 0px;
border: 2px solid #000000;
}

 

This will just make a box, and the box is 80% the size of your users browser window.  If you wanted to set a pixel dimension instead for width, you could do that too.

[denoteone]

my only problem is that I am sending the html in an email so I am trying to stay away from using css unless it is inline.

[p2grace]

If you set the width of one of the td's, the rest of the td's will fill in the rest of the space.  This will make everything in the first td wrap instead of making the td wider.

[denoteone]

thank you!

[p2grace]

If the post has been solved can you please set it to "Solved".  Thank you!