I have the following textarea in a table:
<table width="300"><tr><td>
<textarea style="width:100%">
longstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstring
</textarea>
</td></tr></table>
With a long string in the textarea, the textarea stretches out to accommodate it in one line in IE7, but retains its 300px width in other browsers.
Any ideas as to how to fix this in IE?
Apply the width to the td, not the table.
EDIT: #Emmett - the width could just as easily be applied via CSS.
td {
width: 300px;
}
produces the desired result. Or, if you're using jQuery, you could add the width through script:
$('textarea[width=100%]').parent('td').css('width', '300px');
Point being, there's more than one way to apply a width to a table cell, if development constraints prevent you from applying it directly.
#Peter Meyer, Jim Robert
I tried different overflow values, to no avail.
Experimenting with different values for the wrap attribute and the word-wrap style also wasn't fruitful.
EDIT:
#dansays, seanb
Due to some awkward application-specific constraints, the width can only be applied to the table.
#travis
Setting style="word-break:break-all;" sort of worked! It still wraps differently in IE7 and FF. I'll accept this answer if nothing better comes up.
Another hacky option, but the only option that works for me - none of the other suggestions on this page do - is to wrap the textarea in a single cell table with a fixed table layout.
<table style="width:100%;table-layout:fixed"><tr><td>
<textarea style="width:100%">longstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstring</textarea>
</td></tr></table>
Another very hacky option, if you are stuck with a lot of constraints, but know what the surrounding dom will look like:
style="width:100%;width:expression(this.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.width +'px')"
not pretty, but does work in IE7.
Using jquery or similar would be a much neater solution, but it depends on the other constraints you have.
did you try...
overflow: hidden;
??
I'm not sure if it should be in the table of the textarea... experiment a bit
IE also supports the word-break CSS 3 property.
The overflow property is the way to go. In particular, if you want the extra text to be ignored, you can use "overflow:hidden" as a css property on the text.
In general, when a browser has an unbreakable object, such as a long string without spaces, it can have a conflict between various size constraints - those of the string (long) vs its container (short). If you see different behavior in different browsers, they are just resolving this conflict differently.
By the way, there is a nice trick available for long strings - the <wbr> tag. If your browser sees longstringlongstring, then it will try to fit it in the container as a single, unbroken string -- but if it can't fit, it will break that string in half at the wbr. It's basically a break point with a implicit request to not break there, if possible (sort of like a hyphen in printed texts). By the way, it's a little buggy in some versions of Safari and Opera - check out this quirksmode page for more.
I've run into this problem before. It's related to how HTML parses table and cell widths.
You're fine setting 300 as a width as long as the contents of the element can never exceed that (setting a div with a definite width inside and an overflow rule is my favorite way).
But absent a solution like the above, the minute ANY element pushes you past that width, all bets are off. The element becomes as wide as it has to to accommodate the contents.
Additional tip - encase your width values in whatever set of quotes will nest the value properly (<table width='300'). If someone comes along and changes it to a %, it will ignore the %, otherwise.
Unfortunately, you're always going to have trouble breaking strings that do not have 'natural' breaks in IE, unless you can do something to break them up via code.
For solve this issue you use space in your text,and you too use this code
overflow:hidden
Give the width in pixels.this should work properly
or, how about:
overflow: scroll;
Edit:
I actually tested this. I think the behavior is such because the width is on the table, which I believe (I have nothing to back this up) I read long ago that the table width is a suggested width, but can be expanded to accommodate its content. Not sure. I know if you use a <DIV> rather than a table, it works. Additionally, if you apply the 300 pixel width to the containing <TD> element as opposed to the <TABLE> element, it works as well. Also, the overflow: scroll does nothing! :P
Nice, funky IE behavior, for sure!
Best thing I could find to make it work, a little hacky:
wrap textarea with <div style="width:300px; overflow:auto;">
might want to play around with the overflow value
Related
I am trying to word-wrap an email address within a div, where otherwise it would overflow because it's too long for the div's width.
I know this issue has been covered here before (e.g. this question), but read-on, because I cover all the possible solutions mentioned there and elsewhere.
None of the below solutions do exactly what I want:
CSS
"word-wrap: break-word".
Depending on the div's width, this breaks the email address at awkward places. e.g.
info#longemailaddress.co.u
k
Use a Soft Hyphen within the HTML:
This is really well supported, but renders a visible hyphen on the page, leading user to believe the email address has a hyphen in there:
info#long-
emailaddress.co.uk
Use a thinspace or zero-width space within the email address:
(thinspace)
(zero-width space)
Both of these insert extra characters (bummer if user copy-pastes)
Linebreaks...
<br />
... are out because, most of the time, the div is large enough to contain the email address on one line.
I guess I'm hoping for some ingenious way of doing this in HTML/CSS, perhaps making use of pseudo elements (e.g. :before / :after), or by using a soft hyphen but somehow hiding it with CSS in some clever way.
My site uses jquery, so I'll resort to that if I must, although I'd rather not include a whole hyphenation library just for this one little problem!
Answers on a postcard please. (Or, ideally here...)
You can clip the text and use a tooltip
width: 100px;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
What I do is on hover show the full text as tooltip or use the title attribute for tooltip.
<p class="email" title="long-email-address#mail.com">...</p>
Maybe you can try <wbr> instead of <br>
Unfortunately, this won't work in IE.
word-wrap:break-word is based on the width of the container you want to break the word in. It's not going to break it where you decide to. You are unfortunately out of luck unless you want to reduce the width of the div so that it breaks where you want.
The other solutions, as you've discovered, are inadequate for your needs. Additionally, using a "jQuery hyphenation library" probably won't fix your issue either because it'll just be injecting the characters, line breaks, or so on just as you tried. You end up with the same problem.
I don't mean any offense by this, but maybe it would be good to rethink the design, rather than work around the design? Robin's answer is a decent alternative, though you won't be able to select the email address without javascript.
Please view the following fiddle in Firefox and you will see that the line of text in the textarea is getting cut off mid way through because of the long file name, but in IE and Chrome, the line goes the entire width of the textarea and only wraps once it has reached the end. I would like to achive this same behavior in Firefox and have tried everything I can with my limited CSS skills to make it work to no avail so thought I would stop pulling my hair out and come to the pros for some help.
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/yGuAy/1/
No values of word-wrap: and text-wrap: seem to work for me. However, you can omit your problem by using dashes instead of underscores in links.
If you play around with the textarea width property and font-size you can reach a desirable outcome.
JsFiddle Example
By adding style of dimension in textarea it works-
<textarea cols="70" rows="3" style="width: 675px; height: 30px;">http://www.example.com/some_dir/another_dir/some_really_long_and_complex_file_name.ext</textarea>
But this is temporary solution but can not figure out why is it so with firefox.I think problem is with " / " in url .If i removes it works but same i don't know reason.
I think the firefox is considering the last part of the string
/some_really_long_and_complex_file_name.ext
to be one single word (which is true), which may be longer than the horizontal space available in the text area, so it simply puts the the last part in the next line. So if you try increase the width of the text area it will fit horizontally.
This is not working on my IE:
<table style="padding:5px">...</table>
however it works on Opera.
Is there a workaround?
The earlier CSS specs (which IE6 follows -- and I use the word "follows" loosely) are not clear about what padding defined on a table should even mean. IE6, naturally, decided to interpret this differently than every other browser, by ignoring the padding. Other browsers decided to render it by adding spacing between the table border and the outermost cells, without affecting the spacing inside cells, or between internal cells. By the time IE7 came out, the specs had cleared up to work like the other browsers, but IE6 still has the problem, where it simply ignores the padding.
The best solution is to avoid putting padding on your table, but instead surrounding it with a div, and putting the padding there.
<div style="padding: 5px;">
<table...>
</table>
</div>
Of course, if what you want is cell spacing or cell padding (as opposed to just padding on the table), then you should use the cellspacing or cellpadding attributes (even if you don't want these, you at least need cellspacing="0" to avoid another separate issue with IE6 table rendering).
Also, the inline styles here are for demo purposes; using css classes is generally considered better practice.
Did you try using <table cellpadding="5">? IE has problems with some css styling.
Also your syntax is wrong you forgot a semi-colon.
I'd venture to guess something else is wrong in your code.
Padding works fine in IE:
http://jsbin.com/ewuho4/
If you want to pad the cells then use cellpading attribure (cellpadding="X") if you want to padd a table, then that is awkward considering it's structure, I recommend that you put a margin if you want some space between it and the rest of stuff. Padding does not work on IE an even though I am not a fan of IE I do not blame it for that
I've already figured out that Firefox's sizing of textareas is buggy - it always adds one to your rows and cols settings. But I've decided to just ignore that. The problem is that Firefox also refuses to put in the vertical scrollbar, even if I type a friggin' short story into the box.
Am I doing something wrong (i.e. invalid)? Is there a workaround?
<textarea rows="1" cols="35" name="Cmnt1"></textarea>
(I want to use a one-row textarea instead of an input type=text precisely because the latter doesn't provide scrollbars. All the other browsers will give you a vertical scrollbar even on a one-row textarea.)
Note that this field will almost always contain just a single line of text, but it needs to accept more "just in case". A text input field is less than satisfactory (<-- understatement) because it always hides the overflow. In every other browser, a single-row textarea works exactly as I want. I vehemently disagree that what I want is a usability problem. Unfortunately, the way it behaves in Firefox is a usability problem.
Edit: turns out there's a bug with my installation of Firefox. :/
I know this is really old, but I have a similar issue and found the answer to your question in the process. Playing with a jsfiddle ( http://jsfiddle.net/z8btg/1/ ) in firefox revealed that the vertical scrollbar is only visible if there is room to display both the up and down arrow graphics. (Click on the little resize icon and make it small / big.) For me, the sweet spot is 34 pixels.
What I am trying to do:
I need the textarea to be one line until the textarea is focused, then I change it to a larger (popout style) textarea.
Try setting the overflow css property to "scroll". For example:
<textarea rows="1" cols="35" name="Cmnt1" style="overflow: scroll;"></textarea>
Edit: Sorry, should be overflow-y: scroll.
Focus on the textarea, hit the return key.
This sounds like a pretty terrible idea, by the way.
I used something like this to present a html link to visitors, needed to fit into the design and usability is just fine for it's intended function:
<input type="text" name="linkHTML" id="linkHTML" style="width: 95%;" value='YOUR TEXT CONTENT' onfocus="this.select()" onclick="this.select()" />
Set width as needed (% or px).
On click will highlight for copy.
Try setting the height of the textarea to 1em with CSS (which means one line-height unit) and set the rows to a higher value.
I am using Firefox 2.0. The scrollbar on the textarea does not show up until the height of the textarea is 32px (which is about two lines of text). If the height is less than that the scrollbars disappear -- probably because there is not enough room to show the arrow icons.
Okay, this is a weird one to me. Here's the HTML element I'm working with:
LOLZ http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/14571/screenshot_030_0O2o3D.png
A photo with a caption. Ideally, I'd like it to look like this, through pure CSS:
alt text http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/14572/screenshot_031_mp84u7.png
The width of the image's parent element needs to be dependent on the image's size.
I can change the markup all I need to. (The text isn't currently in its own div, but it can be if necessary.) Is there any way in CSS to accomplish this? I get the impression that I need to "force" the text to wrap as much as possible (which doesn't seem achievable), or make the whole element's width dependent on just one element and ignore the other (which I've never heard of before).
Is there a real way? Or do I need to use magical Javascript instead? (The JS solution is fairly simple, but fairly lame...)
Check out this great article on the best ways of handling the image-with-a-caption scenario.
Personally this is one of those cases where you gotta suck it up and go with that works.
Make the container a table with table-layout:fixed and put the image in the top row. You can also do this with pure CSS using the display:table-* properties (and the IE7-js library for IE6 compatibility).
What table-layout:fixed does is make the table drawing algorithm lock the width of each table column once the width of the first cell in that column is known. The caption will have nowhere to expand to so it will wrap to the width of the image (the first cell).
Alright, it looks like there's no simple solution that I can pull off. Thanks for helping me work that out :)
I think that, given how I'll be storing those images, accessing width won't involve constant recalculation. I may just use that server-side magic instead.
Thanks!
Here's a solution that probably does not work for you even though it does produce the layout you requested:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style>
div.a {float: left;
position:relative;}
div.b {
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
text-align: center;
background-color:gray;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="a">
<img src="http://stackoverflow.com/content/img/so/logo.png" alt="">
<div class="b">Caption text Caption text Caption text Caption text Caption text </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You see the reason why it is unsatisfactory if you place some content below the div a. It will overlap with the caption, because the absolutely positioned caption did not extend the parent div vertically. It still may work for you if you have enough white space below anyway or you are willing to reserve it.
I came up with a working and fairly clean solution.
The solution uses a table (or div with display:table if you prefer) and adds a second column to "push" the first cell into the minimum space it really needs. The table can be set to 1px width to stop it growing across the page. I've put together a demo to show this in action:
http://test.dev.arc.net.au/caption-layout.html
Tested and working in IE8, Firefox and Safari/Win
The table answer would work. Easily. I can't encourage its use but ease-of-use does have merit. I was going to suggest using the clip: CSS property, but I can't get it to work on my local machine (for some reason, though it renders the example at cssplay.co.uk perfectly).
The downside of this is that it probably only works if you define fixed-widths for the containers. I'm sure there must be a way, though. I'll keep looking.