Email HTML - line not able to line break properly with _ instead of - - html

I've spent hours researching this and I'm trying to edit an email where they would like the References to say something like:
American Parkinson Association: https://www.test.com/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/12-09.com
ABCDEF: https://www.test.com/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/1234567890_098765_4321.com
However, when I code the 2nd numbered list, because there are underscores in the link and not dashes, it instead turns to the below with the link on it's own separate line. If I change the underscores to dashes, it will work formatting wise, but the link is obviously incorrect. I tried adding a "space" in the text of the link but if someone has to copy the link and send it, it will contain the "%20" and error out. If I add a "br" in the text, I will have to link both sections of the link. If I force the link to span across, then the whole width of the email will stretch and look weird.
ABCDEF:
https://www.test.com/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/1234567890_098765_4321.com
This is driving me crazy. There has to be an easier way. Please help?

It looks like it's because the entirety of the line itself may be too long, and thus making the line jump down. It should not be because of underscores specifically, or any of that sort.
You have quite a few options.
1) Add CSS that formats the text and/or links to a size where the link is within the acceptable size that you desire. There are numerous ways to achieve this.
2) Simply make an anchor tag that links to your desired url, and you can type whatever seems the most reasonable as the visual link.
Example:
Whatever text you want
The second solution is more clean, and that way you can make it way more compact and straight to the point as well. Having ridiculously long links in an E-mail looks unprofessional in my opinion.

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If there are a number of links on a webpage, is it possible to break onto a new line while the link is either fully on either side?
For example: This blog http://northskie.blogspot.com/ shows a series of links using the standard A HREF="http://www... " etc .
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Conditionally adding a line to text box with bulleted list in SSRS

I'm a competent C# developer, but new to SSRS, so my inability to figure out this stupid little issue is kinda killing me here.
I've got a report that's basically a printed quote. There's a terms and conditions section at the bottom that looks like
some static text
some static text
some static text
With certain quote types, we want to add one more line to the bottom of that. I've tried a bunch of ways to get this to work, but can't seem to get it to work within the bulleted list. If I add a new line with the bullet, I've got a blank bullet when the quote type doesn't call for that item. If I clear the bullet and try to manually add it with chr(9) for tabs, it doesn't work. The closest I could get to it was this:
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Problem is, that still leaves an unwanted blank line. Ideally, I'd think my solution would be to put my «expr» at the end of the last static text line and trigger a line break that would add another bullet and my text, or, after that line, with html, add a <li>my text</li>, but none of that works.
Is there something silly that I'm missing here?
I could easily just create two versions of this box, one with that line, one without, and conditionally display the appropriate one, depending on what type of quote it is, but that feels "dirty". At this point though, as simple as this task is, I'm ready to go dirty rather than spin my wheels for too much longer over something so trivial. :(
I would Create a separate dataset, ex. Italicsdataset
select "bullet text formatted in html" as Option1, "bullet option 2" as Option 2...
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Here's the case: I have a series of thumbnails in a page, and I would like to display several keywords over each image when the user hovers with the cursor. Each of those keywords are anchor tags that point to a search query. And each thumbnail (the image) should also be clickable (through the empty spaces that the keywords leave) and point to a specific page.
I have everything already coded, I'm just missing a way to display the keyword anchors over the image anchors. I already tried with an onclick="window.location.href=..." but when the user clicks the keyword, the onclick is also triggered (for instance: if I ctrl+click on a keyword, i get the keyword search on a different window, but the main window content changes as well).
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This is quite common and can definitely be done with plain HTML and CSS. You can also do it with JavaScript, but I prefer to avoid doing so if possible.
This example is perfectly valid HTML/CSS and should have no weird browser rendering issues (even as far back as IE 6).
http://jsfiddle.net/2JD76/1/
Basically you have a containing element, in this case a div, which has your linked thumbnail and linked keywords. They're hidden by default and only shown when the containing div is hovered.
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You can not. It is illegal html.
Attach a click handler that changes the current location instead of the "greater ".
I was going to answer with a long reply but, well check out my Jsfiddle here. I was trying to solve something before and well...check it out.
http://jsfiddle.net/somdow/KSt6a/
If you look at the code, its doing exactly what you are describing.
On my Jsfiddle, theres a div box with space for an image(this is wher YOUR image would go), The image is on the code but not on the jsfiddle so youll see the alt tag....Anyways so, on mouse-over, it brings up another div with text dynamically created inside of it.
All you have to do is replace the image content with your own image, then Insert the links/keywords links you want into this line
.prepend('<div class="portSecRollOver"><div class="portSecInner"></div></div>');
and stick your words in between the <div class="portSecInner"> **YOUR WORDS HERE** </div> line
And change the CSS to fit your needs.
oh AND ps, DELETE this line (below) which is the one that dynamically appends text inside of "portSecInner", since your going to insert your own words, then you dont need this line.
$(this).find('.portSecInner').html("<h3 class='h34roll'>" + $(this).find('img').attr("alt") + "</h3>");

How to resolve issue where table column is too narrow?

I'm new on this particular project, and I've been tasked with resolving an issue that's appearing in IE8.
If you check http://funds.ft.com/ETFHomepage.aspx, There's a section called "News". In that section, there's a column called "Most Popular ETFs". This should be the same width as the "Recently Viewed ETFs" column.
For reference, this page is appearing correctly in Firefox. Can somebody please point out what I can do with CSS or (some other means)* to resolve this?
*I know the best way to resolve this issue is to scrap the terrible design and implement it correctly!! :-) -- we're actually doing that right now. It's a big job, so it's taking a long time. In the mean time however, we have to fix the bugs as they appear. Thanks
Update: just to note what I've said to Hristo, "I think the problem is with the table (rather, nested tables) on the left. The table in the center has its width defined by the image, and the table on the right doesn't have an image so it gets crushed"
Well the reason this is happening is because of the url you have under the "Alphaville: Overcoming the Volcker rule, with ETFs" header. Since the url has no whitespace in it, the table tries to give it space. So there are a couple of ways to fix this problem:
Plain text urls aren't very becoming on a webpage (especially when they're not in anchor tags so you can click on them.) Could you update the content so that you don't have a raw url in your content?
If you must be able to handle long lines of text with no whitespace then you need to figure out how to change the layout of the page so it forces the text to either wrap or clip to fit the container. Try playing around with putting "table-layout: fixed" on your tables to force the column widths to be sized based on the table's specifications only (instead of content). Firefox seems to be wrapping on dashes and slashes in the url whereas IE only wants to wrap on the dashes in the url.
I would say your layout is fine, and you just need to fix the content generation so it doesn't include any long plain text urls (option 1 above)
EDIT: If you do decide to go with option 2 above, then look into the css rule "word-break: break-all". It is IE only and it forces the text to break as soon as it reaches the end of the container. Not good for words, but it works for url's. So you couldn't apply this to the whole news table, but you could to just the cell that contains the url.