Unable to correctly size table in Guestbook

I don't understand what the problem is.  The page looks fine to me.  What do you mean by stretching out?  What is stretching.

Cd&

In the guestbook, you have an entry ...

<br><b>Name:</b> lindsay
<br><b>Email:</b> <a href="mailto:lindsayksj_1@hotmail.com"><i>lindsayksj_1@hotmail.com</i></a>
<br><b>Date:</b> Jun 1, 2001 05:49 PDT
<br><b>Location:</b> N6974 Lake Mills, WI
<br><br><b>Comments:</b>
<blockquote>
              I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(NO SUPRISE EVERYONE LOVES YOU)
</blockquote>
<hr noshade width="80%">



I took this one out and it was all OK.

I think it MAY have something to do with allocating too much space for the ! but not actually needing it.

Not sure why really!

Regards,

Richard.

Ha!

Even EE does the same thing!

In response to COBALDinasour, the page that's spreading is the "Guestbook-View" or www.nsyncfanbus.com/data/guestbook.html

Thanks COBALdinosaur. I'll delete tard-entries tonight to see if this will correct the width problems. I'll let you know if this fixes it.

Can you try adding WRAP=PHYSICAL to the textarea within the guestbook and try adding something then?

This is from the HTMLReference Library.

The TEXTAREA element lets users enter more than one line of text.

Any text included up to the end element is used to initialise the field's value. This end element is always required even if the field is initially blank. When submitting a form, lines in a TEXTAREA should be terminated using CR/LF.

In a typical rendering, the ROWS and COLS attributes determine the visible dimension of the field in characters. The field is rendered in a fixed-width font. HTML user agents should allow text to extend beyond these limits by scrolling as needed.

The WRAP attribute can be used to specify how to handle word-wrapping display in text input areas in forms.

<TEXTAREA WRAP=OFF> -- the default setting - Wrapping doesn't happen. Lines are sent exactly as typed.
<TEXTAREA WRAP=VIRTUAL> -- The display word-wraps, but long lines are sent as one line without new-lines.
<TEXTAREA WRAP=PHYSICAL> -- The display word-wraps, and the text is transmitted at all wrap points.
NOTE : Internet Explorer (version 3.0), by default wraps text in a <TEXTAREA> box, while Internet Explorer 4.0 supports the WRAP attribute. Also, these values have changed in Netscape 4.0 and Internet Explorer 4.0 and above to WRAP="off|soft|hard" respectively.


I THINK you can have WRAP=PHYSICAL WRAP=HARD in the same tag. Not sure. If not, you will need to sniff the browser and see which one to use.

Regards,

Richard.

WRAP  is an interesting attribute.  It is not in the HTML standard but is supported by major browsers except Netscape 6.

However the HTML reference library is somewhat inaccurate as to how it is actually implemented:
"The documentation for Netscape 2.0 lists two interesting values for the WRAP attribute: PHYSICAL and VIRTUAL. It does appear to support these values after a strange fashion - they are both treated exactly the same way as SOFT (which is not Netscape's default value for this attribute.) Interesting to note also that BOTH Microsoft and Netscape have each listed PHYSICAL and VIRTUAL in one of their references, even though these values have never really worked. Values of SOFT and HARD HAVE worked for this attribute since Netscape version 2.0 and Internet Explorer 4.0. See http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/new_html3_prop.html for the Netscape reference that lists VIRTUAL and PHYSICAL (Microsoft's reference listing VIRTUAL/PHYSICAL has since been taken down.)"

Source: www.blooberry.com

But regardless of how WRAP is used if there are no spaces in a long string it will not wrap.

Cd&

I thought that the hard wrapping would force the entered text to be sent in lines, even if not REALLY breaking at a space?

I think the answer is to chop up lines to a maximum length. I am surprised that there is not a hard wrap function SOMEWHERE!

Another option would be to simply remove multiple characters with a "..." sort of thing.

This would be OK for !!!!!!!!!!!!, but not for asdasdsdjdkkhdlkfhdkfhadfhdfkhfkhdfkldhfkldhsfksdhfksadfhslkdfhs!

How about, any word OVER 100 characters is simply truncated! I am pretty sure that there is no word with 100 characters in it!!!!

Unlessyoutakeverystrangedrugswhichmakeyoutypeveryveryfastandallyourwordsjumbleintooneandanywayyouareprobablymoreinterestedinmunchiesorthespacebaronthekeyboardisbrokenandyoudidntturnthemonitoronbecauseyouaresocool!

Not!

<grin>

Richard.

A big THANK YOU COBOLdinosaur for your help in this matter. Early this morning I edited all entries where the person had put multiple digits together without spaces - and it worked! Even though there is no good way to do this automatically, its still a great solution. Hopefully in the next few years HTML will evolve to a state where it can recognize these entry problems and adjust for them. Until then I'll count on people like you for help. Thanks again.

Glad we could help.  Thanks for the A.:^)

Cd&