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August 3rd, 2006, 02:58 PM
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Thank you, but that's not totally true. I'd say my crystal ball is as good as anyone's though.;)
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August 3rd, 2006, 07:01 PM
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August 3rd, 2006, 07:56 PM
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Hello all - I feel privelleged getting assistance from all three contributing members, thanking you all!!!
I am going to attempt to get a version in the public domain. For the mean time I have uploaded a screen shot to illustrate what I am looking at:
http://www.framegroup.com.au/frameNetFTP/
UN = test.user
PW = test
;;;Words with hyphens will always wrap on the hyphen
This is 'part' of my problem, a very useful thing to know - thanking you!!
Before I take up anybodys time with the rendered HTML. I think I will strip the page back and go through the time consumng process of working from the top down taking into account all of what has been said. Since no change has been suggested to the style - Logic tells me the words must be wrapping as a result of lazy, or a small error in some basic HTML, a cells below the problematic cell may even be causing it, etc....
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August 3rd, 2006, 10:19 PM
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August 4th, 2006, 06:33 PM
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Just a quick observation: when meow suggested using , the initial poster replied they didn't want the database entries to include . There would probably be a workaround available, in the scripts used to get the data out, that would convert a space into a for the purpose of inclusion in the HTML. By no means am I an expert, but I would have thought you should be able to do that.
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August 5th, 2006, 07:01 PM
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Ok, I just finally properly perused your screenshot.
What happens when you apply white-space: nowrap; to those cells? Do you not get the desired effect? If it were me, I'd apply that and adjust the height to accomodate any clipping that may occur. Did you try that, and what results did you see?
I've actually never experimented with the writing-mode property, or that aspect of the filter property, so I don't know what would happen with the white-space: nowrap; declaration, but I imagine it would work the same way. That requires standards rendering mode to be invoked, BTW. It will not work in quirks mode in Explorer.
Then again, this looks like a side-effect of using a tool that's intended to be used for rendering languages which are naturally read vertically. That seems evident in seeing wrapping where you wouldn't think it would occur. I assume you aren't using any hard breaks to force a break anywhere in there.
Also, if you're using images for hacking the table into submission where width and height are conserned, you may also experiment with the table-layout property. It is used to force a table to honor explicitly defined constraints, thus eliminating any need for transparent images. Er, but then again, I think that is just for width, and even applying that height is still subject to the same quirky expand-to-fit sizing. But you might try it anyway. You apply the table-layout: fixed; declaration to the <table> itself.
HTH!
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August 8th, 2006, 06:42 PM
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After strpping my page back outputting the problematic row (which happens to be the top row) I do not get the wrapping. Instead of me going through a very time consuming code n run code n run .... routine I wiah to ask about storing in the database (SQL Server 2000)
The advice I seek:
An SQL statement will not like the semi colon?
In the opinions of the experts here would it be prudent to store a char of some sort (any reccomendations?) using the replace function to replace any spaces with this char on insert of the problematic base name acronym? Then replace the char with a when the page is rendered?
TYIA
BTW: If this post has turned into one that should be in the SQL or ASP area my applogies
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