Table issue

[Jeff M.]

Sorry, guys, I'm sure that I'm being very dense and can't see the hand
in front of my face right now, but for the life of me I cannot get a
#tablecell to every word wrap and take up more than a single line. I'm
sure it's just a CSS style thing that I'm missing, or a record
property I've missed.

Thanks for any pointers.

Jeff M.

[Jesse Gumm]

Try

td {
white-space:nowrap;
}

http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/pr_text_white-space.asp

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[Jeff M.]

No, that's the opposite of what I want. I want it to wrap and can't
get it to. :-(

Thanks for the reply, though! I'll look more at that CSS style, too. I
checked before, but didn't see what I needed.

Jeff M.

On Jun 10, 6:24 pm, Jesse Gumm <sigmas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try
>
> td {
>     white-space:nowrap;
>
> }
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/pr_text_white-space.asp
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Jeff M. <mass...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, guys, I'm sure that I'm being very dense and can't see the hand
> > in front of my face right now, but for the life of me I cannot get a
> > #tablecell to every word wrap and take up more than a single line. I'm
> > sure it's just a CSS style thing that I'm missing, or a record
> > property I've missed.
>
> > Thanks for any pointers.
>
> > Jeff M.
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[Jesse Gumm]

Ahh, I completely misread your initial request.

You could try

td {white-space:normal}

and if that doesn't work, try

td{white-space:normal !important}

-Jesse

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[Jeff M.]

That seems to have fixed my problem.. and I feel sheepish for not
having seen it before. Thanks, Jesse.

Jeff M.

[Jeff M.]

Actually, it didn't fix my problem, a short test tricked me into
thinking it did. I think I've discovered the actual problem, and
wondering if anyone has any ideas for me.

I believe the problem is that #literal{}, #span{}, and
wf:html_encode() all convert space (0x20) into &nbsp;. And because of
that, none of the traditional word-wrapping ever happens.

Before I start heading down the path of trying to use regex or
something to take the html encoded string and convert all "&nbsp;"
matches into " ", I figured I'd stop and see if there's another option
available to me that does the encoding but leaves the whitespace
alone.

Thanks all!

Jeff M.

[Jesse Gumm]

Ahh. Yeah, a handful of people have tweaked the framework to remove
the line that converts space to &nbsp;

Comment out or delete line 81 of wf_convert.erl ($\s -> "&nbsp;" ++
html_encode(T);) and it won't encode spaces anymore.

Gotta make your own fork of the codebase, but hey, it works. Just
remember to merge Rusty's changes into your own whenever he deploys a
new version.

-Jesse

[Benjamin Nortier]

This is something that should probably go into master, I've had this problem before as well.

I.e. someone should send Rusty a pull request after making the change...

Cheers

Ben

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[Benjamin Nortier]

Someone = me. I've sent Rusty the pull request

[Rusty Klophaus]

Thanks guys, this is now tracked in:

http://nitrogen.lighthouseapp.com/projects/21480-nitrogen/tickets/77

[jera...@gmail.com]

What I've done in cases like this is to set the html_encode property to false in the element records and encoded the strings myself leaving the spaces as spaces rather than converting them to non-breaking spaces. Basically copied Nitrogen's encoding function and omitted the space encoding. The function is relatively short and simple.

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