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WordWrap in table field.

Asked by Workshop_Alex in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Tags: table, width, wordwrap

I have an application that generates a report as an HTML file. This file can then be put on a webserver, send by email or opened directly. I must stick to pure HTML 4, am allowed to use stylesheets but NO scripting, objects or dependencies to other files. It looks quite nice and is very useful but it just has one flaw... Here we go:

I have a table with quite a lot of rows and three columns. The width of this table is set to 100% but unfortunately the texts in the columns force the table to be wider than this. Thus the last column disappears from the screen and I need to scroll to the right to see it. When I print the report, part of it won't be printed.
The problem occurs because I am showing the following values:
Column 1: IMPORTTEMPLATE
Column 2: rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikk,kkdddXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Column 3: <Default>

As you can see, the length of the value in colum 2 is very long. It makes the column quite wide. However, I want this column to be limited to a maximum width. Just setting the width of the field doesn't help. Adding <WBR> every x characters doesn't work either. And I can't add breaks dynamically since I'm not allowed to do any scripting in it. Besides, the page must be visible on 640x480 and also on 1600x1200 thus I can't set the width to any fixed value either. Neither am I allowed to add spaces or other visible characters in the value. Thus, it's a nice, simple problem for which I don't have an answer... yet.

With kind regards,
Alex.

p.s. Be aware that I have to follow the HTML 4 specifications very strictly. Style sheets are allowed, scripting, objects, applets and dependencies to other files isn't allowed. And it's a raw page without a web server behind it.
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