Heres the entire page
* wrappable is defined in a main.css file
/* Wrappable cell
* Add this class to make sure the text in a cell will wrap.
* By default, data_table tds do not wrap.
*/
td.wrappable,
table.data_table td.wrappable {
white-space: normal;
}
Heres the entire page:
<%@ include file="../../include/pre-header.html" %>
<form id="commentForm" name="commentForm" action="" method="post">
<ctl:vertScroll height="300" headerStyleClass="data_table_scroll" bodyStyleClass="data_table_scroll" enabled="${user.scrollTables}">
<ctl:sortableTblHdrSetup topTotal="false" href="show.whatif_edit_entry? entryId=${entry.entryId}" />
<table class="data_table vert_scroll_table">
</tr>
<tr>
<ctl:sortableTblHdr styleClass="center" title="Comments" property="comment" type="top">Comments</ctl:sortableTblHdr>
</tr>
<c:forEach var="comments" items="${entry.comments}">
<tr id="id${comments.id}">
<td id="comments-${comments.id}" class="wrappable" style="width:400px;">${comments.comment}</td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
<c:if test="${lock.locked || form.entryId < 0 }">
<%-- This is the row for adding a new comment. --%>
<tr id="commentRow">
<td><input type="text" id="comment" name="comment" size="50" maxlength="250" onkeypress="javascript:return noenter();" />
<a href="javascript:addComment();"><img src="../images/icon_add.gif" border="0" alt="Add"/></a>
</td>
</tr>
</c:if>
</table>
</ctl:vertScroll>
</form>
It just stretches every time I submit.
This page is within a div also. Do I need to set the width of the div and the table also?
Use table-layout:fixed
in the table and word-wrap:break-word
in the td.
See this example:
<html>
<head>
<style>
table {border-collapse:collapse; table-layout:fixed; width:310px;}
table td {border:solid 1px #fab; width:100px; word-wrap:break-word;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Lorem Ipsum</td>
<td>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>LoremIpsumhasbeentheindustry'sstandarddummytexteversincethe1500s,whenanunknown</td>
<td>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td></td>
<td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna...</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
DEMO:
table {border-collapse:collapse; table-layout:fixed; width:310px;}
table td {border:solid 1px #fab; width:100px; word-wrap:break-word;}
<table>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Lorem Ipsum</td>
<td>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>LoremIpsumhasbeentheindustry'sstandarddummytexteversincethe1500s,whenanunknown</td>
<td>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td></td>
<td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna...</td>
</tr>
</table>
Its works for me.
<style type="text/css">
td {
/* css-3 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;
word-wrap: break-word;
white-space: pre-wrap;
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;
white-space: -pre-wrap;
}
And table attribute is:
table {
table-layout: fixed;
width: 100%
}
td {
overflow: hidden;
max-width: 400px;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
If you are using Bootstrap responsive table, just want to set the maximum width for one particular column and make text wrapping, making the the style of this column as following also works
max-width:someValue;
word-wrap:break-word
If you want fix the column you should set width. For example:
<td style="width:100px;">some data</td>
This is another way of tackling the problem if you have long strings (like file path names) and you only want to break the strings on certain characters (like slashes). You can insert Unicode Zero Width Space characters just before (or after) the slashes in the HTML.
.wrappable {
overflow: hidden;
max-width: 400px;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
I have tested with the binary data and its working perfectly here.