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Controlling the max text length

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Controlling the max text length

Jun 23rd, 2008

Hello, I am trying to control the max length that the text appears, before it goes to the next line in a div. So I want the div to be say 100, but I want the text to only reach 50 before it wraps to the next line. Is there a way I can do this?

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Re: Controlling the max text length

Jun 24th, 2008

It's possible using JavaScript. Use the slice() function to do it. More on slice() function at
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_slice_string.asp

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Re: Controlling the max text length

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thx that got it working for me!

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Re: Controlling the max text length

Jun 24th, 2008

Or you could just use padding (which can be added directly to your div id)

So if your div is 100px long and you would like it to start a new line at 50px you would add

padding-right:50px

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