Tables

[Calmaris]

I have a page that displays the contents of a record in a database that when displayed, if the contents are very long it stretches the table's length across the whole page and looks very ugly how do you set the table so that it only expands downward not across.

[gil davis]

Tables always size to their contents. It only knows how to break on space boundaries. If there are no spaces in your data, you'll have to find another way to display it.

[Nedals]

It only knows how to break on space boundaries. If there are no spaces in your data, you'll have to find another way to display it.Expanding:
If you do have spaces then add "width=xxx" in your table tag. If your table has multiple cells and you already have a table width defined, then add a "width=xxx" to the <td> tag of the cell containing the data. If there are no spaces, follow gil's advice.

[khaki]

okay...

before we go any further with this thread here... please be advised that it is a double-post and is currently being address in the ASP forum:

http://forums.webdeveloper.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7206

this thread should be closed.

[Richard1]

This looks like an HTML question which belongs in this category if I'm not mistaken.

You can use a width=XXX in either the table tag or in the
table data tag as shown below.
<td width="XXX">

[Richard1]

Just to avoid any confusion I've moved the doubled thread in the ASP Forum to the HTML category. Thanks.

Rich