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Breaking long links
hi,
I'm looking for a way to break long links in my page into multiple lines as currently the page gets skewed because of them. It doesn't look like HTML supports this - I tested the <pre> tag but it only seems to affect strings that contain whitespaces. Is there any way to achieve that so that it works in all these browsers: IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera?
Thanks!
I'm looking for a way to break long links in my page into multiple lines as currently the page gets skewed because of them. It doesn't look like HTML supports this - I tested the <pre> tag but it only seems to affect strings that contain whitespaces. Is there any way to achieve that so that it works in all these browsers: IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera?
Thanks!
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Karai_17
You could have the link call a javascript function to load the url based on the link ID, or some such thing.
You could also try detecting the length of the url string using ASP.NET and formatting it so it displays something like this:
<a href="http://www.google.com/some/web/site/index.aspx">http://www.google.com/.../index.aspx</a>
ASKER
Karai_17: I like your solution most so far. tinyurl is not what I'm looking for. Link id seems like a complicated idea.
Actually now I have realised that I would need this functionality not only for links, but also for simply long words. I could detect long words with ASP.NET and if they're over a certain length, I could insert a new line after that position.
Any other ideas?
Actually now I have realised that I would need this functionality not only for links, but also for simply long words. I could detect long words with ASP.NET and if they're over a certain length, I could insert a new line after that position.
Any other ideas?
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