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#46323
03/28/2001 11:11 AM
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You know what I'm talking about.. Stretched screen syndrome, when someone posts a word or phrase that's too long for the screen, or when you use the [ code ] tag..
Surely there has to be something we can do about this, and figure out a way to stop it from happening. I was just reading the "flash" thread in here, and ick, it was really getting on my nerves.. So... any ideas? Maybe a character limit on a word, after which a < BR > would be inserted? Although that would require picking a limit that would work for most screen resolutions, possibly not all..
Has anyone looked into this problem before?
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#46324
03/28/2001 5:25 PM
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There is only one solution - truncate long strings before they become long enough to distort.
Right now, this is done in sub truncate - 180 characters. Reduce that to 100 or so...
Warning - long URLs and URL tags will get truncated.
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#46325
03/30/2001 1:16 AM
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isn't there a way too set a max width limit on a table or something?
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#46326
03/30/2001 3:00 AM
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Nope, the text string will distort the table - that is required by W3C specs.
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