Textarea Word Wrap

I am developing a CF site using DW. I have my pages saved as .cfm.

I have a form embeded as a SSI. The textarea is limited to 50 columns and 5
rows.

When I test the form, I intentionally put 6 rows of letters in the field.

When I get the thankyou page that contains what I have written, the words do
not wrap and causes the table to go off the screen.

Is this just a matter of locking the table width?

Your help is appreciated.

Are you putting any spaces between the words/letters?

Tables in HTML expand to accomidate whatever you put in them, if you have a
thousand character word with no spaces or hypens its bound to cause the
table to expand off the screen.


"bmitchell" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I am developing a CF site using DW. I have my pages saved as .cfm.

I have a form embeded as a SSI. The textarea is limited to 50 columns and
5
rows.

When I test the form, I intentionally put 6 rows of letters in the field.

When I get the thankyou page that contains what I have written, the words
do
not wrap and causes the table to go off the screen.

Is this just a matter of locking the table width?

Your help is appreciated.

No, it's a matter of replacing text line breaks with the <br> tag on output.
I'm not sure what CF command you'd use for that.

If the OP has any spaces between the words, the information will wrap on its
own without the <br> tags.

Now, if you want the words to break where the user hit the enter key, then
you would need to replace line breaks with <br> tags.


"Lionstone" <HIDElionstone (AT) HIDEhushmail (DOT) com> wrote

No, it's a matter of replacing text line breaks with the <br> tag on
output.
I'm not sure what CF command you'd use for that.