I had the wrap in too....but it did not seem to wrap the contents.  Looks 
like I would have to have the string contents put within a textarea and 
have the contents made read-only.  
 Thanks for the suggestion though.

Aruna

 Bhuvana Subaramanian <bhuvana@e...> wrote: 

Hi,

You can define a table and have a your contents.
Hope this would work.

bhuvana. 
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> Hi Andrea...
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> I tried the same thing that you defined below but that did not help.
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> Thanks
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> Aruna
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> Andrea Manca wrote: 
> ...have you tried to use an ivisible table with fixed heigth and 
width to
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> Andrea
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aruna [mailto:axn187@y...]
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:27 PM
> To: Pro_JavaServer_Pages
> Subject: [pro_jsp] String question
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> 
> In my application, I retrieve String data ( could be upto 2k long) 
from
> the database and then it is required to display this String contents 
on
> the HTML page. I provided a paragraph tag in the HTML page to display 
the
> database retrieved string contents...however, the string does not wrap
> within the paragraph and as a result the display format gets offset. 
Is
> there any way I can wrap the String contents to a sizeable block of 
data
> so that it does not destroy the output format display.
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> Thanks,
> 
> Aruna