Text from Db does not wrap in Firefox/Mozilla

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    I am having problems getting text strings from a Db to wrap to the table cell if Firefox. It just continues out across the page as if a table cell weren't even there. I tried passing the string thru wordwrap() but it did nothing, is anyone familiar with how this is done?...
     
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  2. TwistMyArm

    TwistMyArm Peon

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    You're probably looking for the nl2br function. That assumes that your DB data just has new line characters as opposed to the <br /> type code required in HTML.
     
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  3. gigamike

    gigamike Active Member

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    Hi,

    have you try this one.

    <?php
    $text = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";
    $newtext = wordwrap($text, 20, "<br />\n");

    echo $newtext;
    ?>

    http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.wordwrap.php

    Example 2374. wordwrap() example

    Thanks,

    Mike


     
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    livingearth Well-Known Member

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    @ Gigamike
    That made some leeway only now it seems I need to parse for the hrefs. So it doesn't break the code when it breaks inside an href.. Any idea how to do this?
     
    livingearth, Mar 9, 2007 IP