what's the easiest way of line breaking overflowed text?

so that when i i have a blockquote width 500px, text without spaces does not keep on going and going on the same line...

 

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

 

You could use wordwrap() with <wbr> as the $cut parameter.

 

is there a way to wrap according to width in pixels and not number of characters?

 

Need font metrics to calculate line length.

Barring that, I think you're stuck with estimating number of characters that will fit into the ideal width.

Will

 

i think i should be using textareas instead of blockquotes, think that will fix it from the start. cheers

 

update: yes it has, but i can't get select all onclick to work now

 

http://www.plus2net.com/javascript_tutorial/textarea-onclick.php

Make sure the textarea name matches the javascript function.

 

i'm using the textarea one here: http://javascript-array.com/scripts/onclick_select_all_text_in_field/

no idea why it won't work - i have even kept the id names the same as in their example, and there are no duplicate names elsewhere in my script

 

post the code your currently using here.

although a link to the page would be more appropriate.

 

javascript in .js file, called in header:

textarea i wish to select onclick:

 

<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
function SelectAll(id)
{
document.getElementById(id).focus();
document.getElementById(id).select();
} 
</SCRIPT>

<textarea readonly cols="68" rows="10" id="txtarea" onClick="SelectAll('txtarea');">some text here</textarea>

HTML:

Works fine here...

Are you sure your not modifying the code?, and that you have javascript enabled in your browser.

 

the only thing is the textarea is called using php if/else statements, but there are no errors there as it all loads fine

 

Can you post that code then?

 

This might work for you.

<textarea onclick="select()">content</textarea>

Code (markup):

Will

 

wow, that's incredible it works! any ideas why it didn't before? thanks again!

 

No, no idea. Would need to see the source code of when it didn't work. Could speculate, but don't really want to take the time for that.

Glad it's working.

Will