How do I prevent text from stretching the screen?

[phpnoobie9]

If a user enters characters in a form it can stretch the screen if the user does not use a space. How can I prevent that?

[cooldude832]

wordwrap can be of some help but really in proper xhtml syntax your containers have a defined size that will prevent string from flowing out

[phpnoobie9]

My tables have define widths and it's still stretching?

[Betard]

he means your input tags / the fields they are inputting data....

 

<input type="text" name="email_addy" size="25" />

 

that should prevent the problem you are experiencing.

 

tables/td tags will always stretch to their content regardless of any "set" widths you may have defined for them.

[phpnoobie9]

I forgot to add. When the user submits the data it shows on a different page. So..if a user just keeps doing this..llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll it'll stretch the page. How do I stop that?

[leeandrew]

possibly set your main page width to a px length instead of a percentage. e.g. <table width="800">, then within the main table set widths/heights as percentage. <table width="100%">. Dont know if this will work but i'd give it a try.

[Betard]

I forgot to add. When the user submits the data it shows on a different page. So..if a user just keeps doing this..llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll it'll stretch the page. How do I stop that?

 

you can't really, sometimes you just have to design for typical use, and dismiss the fact that some people may do something like that.

 

That would not be a typical situation, and as designers/coders we simply have to decide "at what point is overkill?"  Do you really care what the submitted page will look like to the idiot that does that? 

[phpnoobie9]

Am I able to disable form submition if the user inserts a certain amount of characters without a space? Like some kind of ereg?

[Demonic]

Just make a function where it splits each word in an array and if there is more then one word longer then 100 characters tell them, you are trying to spam the site.

[tippy_102]

Found on: http://ca3.php.net/wordwrap

 

function layout_wrap($str, $i) {
    $j = $i;
    while ($i < strlen($str)) {
        if (strpos($str, ' ', $i-$j+1) > $i+$j || strpos($str, ' ', $i-$j+1) === false) {
            $str = substr($str, 0, $i) . ' ' . substr($str, $i);
        }
        $i += $j;
    }
    return $str;
}

 

It will wrap strings that do not contain spaces.  $str is your string, and $i is the number of characters after which you want to wrap.