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Forum Name: FatBomb
Topic ID: 6
Message ID: 20
#20, RE: FatBomb Templates - results breaking out of tables
Posted by bscrivener on May-14-04 at 06:47 PM
In response to message #19
>I seem to have a table design flaw. Every so ofter, I get
>some long crazy link that makes you have to scroll to the
>right to see the whole page.
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>Is this a table problem?
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>If so, anyone know how to correct it.
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>Here is a example:
>

Kelvin,

Unfortunately this is a common problem.

Did you notice that the example you posted made the forum really wide now and created a scroll bar at the bottom. It is a common problem that affects HTML in general. Apparently, HTML can be split across multiple lines if there are certain characters (like dashes, spaces, and ? marks) but not others (underscores, plus signs, dots, etc).

I don't really know of a way around this except for applications to be coded to truncate these long strings or for folks to start using characters in their URLs that enable splitting. I have started using dashes to separate words now instead of underscores.

Sorry for not having a solution,
Bo