I'm trying to display pre formatted text in a table cell. Problem is, when an article is submitted to the database, there are no hard returns so the text is displayed super long and resizes the table. Is there a way to "l0ck" the size of the table or a way in the form submit to add breaks every x number of characters? ANy help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

When you select the table and open the properties inspector can can specify a width for a table cell. That is the best way to get the desired result.

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When you select the table and open the properties inspector can can specify a width for a table cell. That is the best way to get the desired result.

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Yea, I tried that already. It seems that when you use preformatted text it will resize the table as it sees fit. Here's the skinny: a user can submit an article using a form, when they are typing or cut/paste into the text field, the text wraps automatically to fit in the box of course. But unless there's an actual hard return, the text is seen as one long line. So if I use "paragraph" for the text format the user's returns and indents are lost. If I use "preformatted" the text is ran in a single line until a hard return is encountered. I was hoping to find a way to continue to use preformatted but give the table the ability to not resize but to wrap the text instead.

Check this FAQ: www.udfaq.com/theanswer.asp?QuestionReference=40

I think that is yur problem, isn't it?

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Actually I just solved it, and it's much easier than that. It has to do with the textarea in the form used to submit an article. You have to set the WRAP property to HARD. DreamweaverUD doesn't have that option, it has physical, which isn't fully understood by IE. So setting the wrap value to hard tells the form to submit a hard return at the end of each line. I was overthinking the problem. Thanks.