tables problem

[thejunior]

Okay I am hand coding a page for someone. I've got a table that when I add a paragraph of text, it all shows up as one line, and resizes the table as wide as the ONE line of text. Anyone know how i can fix this?? thanks in advance

[stainofmind]

All you need to do is set the width of that table/cell/column, then the text should wrap. I personally only do tabless construction. I dictate areas with CSS.

"WIDTH=x (pixels or "%") may control the span of a table across the browser window. A pixel value is absolute...if the user narrows the browser window, the table will slide off to the right. A percentage value will cause the table to consume that portion of the width, regardless of window size, and will wrap text in cells to suit. If needed, think about these and specify carefully."

Hope that helps.

[clifford]

Yeah, you need to put some constraints on the table.

I know of two ways minumum....

1. You can use <br> tags to break up the text into lines:
Ex:

PHP Code:

This is the first line <br>
Second line<br> 
Third line 


OR

2. Set a width on the table.
Ex:

PHP Code:

<table width="40">
   <tr>
      <td>this line will be broken up everytime it reaches the lenght of 40 pixels.</td>
   </tr>
</table> 


Notice the width is in pixels, the text will go down as soon as it reaches the limit, but you can use percentages too Ex: width="50%".... either way this should help solve your problem.