nowrap problem with Dreamwaver

[stealthbox]

When i create a table i cant stop the column from streching when i enter text ......I want tables column to stay the same width and when it reaches the edge to start a new line instead of strechng my column and making it bigger.....I made sure the nowrap was NOT on but it still strechs my columns.......ive tried everything.....

I could press enter to start a new line but i noticed other people dont have to do that .......plus it wouldnt be 100% even ....

I even tried to rip off some code from some site and it worked fine , the columns wouldnt strech but as soon as i deleted the text and enterted my own it started streching again...

Heres what im talking about......

this is what its suppose to look like:



but once i remove the text that was inside the column and put my own in its strech's like in the pic



I typed the dfffffff where it sais tuesday


im really frustrated....how can i overcome this ?

[webchick]

Hm. I don't personally know of a way around this apart from chopping the string length on the server-side prior to posting the text.

For example:

<?php

$string = 
'testtttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt';

$string = wordwrap($string, 30, "<br />\n", 1);

echo $string;

?>

This would print:

testtttttttttttttttttttttttttt
tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
tt

As far as I'm aware, tables by their nature will auto-stretch to the minimum width of whatever's in them, even if you hard-code a width and specify a nowrap attribute.

[mythix]

You could try using the CSS property max-width, allthough I;m not sure that it is supported by Internet Explorer???

[stealthbox]

http://www.ninjalove.com

check out that website....how does that guy keep his entries so straight ?

[stealthbox]

I found the solution, Greymatter

[Nadia P]

I found the solution, Greymatter

What was it? apart from the grey matter :-)

Spacing right?

It may be a good idea to share your solution in case others have a similar problem and need an answer....

Nadia