Forcing line breaks in table entries?
This is for work...not the site in my sig, hence I can't just recode the whole thing... 
I have table cells whose data contains unbroken strings too long for the desired width. Of course, the column gets displayed wider than it should and messes up the rest of the table.
The data is pulled from a database, and I cannot change the data itself and put spaces in the offending strings, as this will mess up other things in the system . Since the <td> tag has a "nowrap" property, isn't there some sort of "wrap" property? I wouldn't mind the string being broken up in the middle, wherever it gets too long for the cell width...
I'm writing in Cold Fusion, however I don't see any CF function to handle this either.
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Lloyd Hassell posted this at 10:04 — 1st June 2000.
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The only thing you can do is split your string. Use CF to do this.
RC posted this at 12:28 — 1st June 2000.
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There is a CF custom tag called CF_ForceWrap that will do exactly what you want. It forces line breaks within any CF string variable at whatever position you want. Here is the link.
http://devex.allaire.com/developer/gallery/info.cfm?ID=CA3473E1-2830-11D4-AA9700508B94F380&method=Full
You could also do this with some tweeking of the string using the right and left functions, but that would be harder.
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