set max characters inside table cell?

[davidliu]

Hi CSSers,

I have a table with table-layout:fixed property with 5 headers <th>. How do I set the data cells <td> within each of the headers to have a maximum character allowed? I tried ‘maxlength’ but it didn’t work.

Is there a property I’m missing out?

Thank you very much!
Dave

[TheDoc]

Max characters allowed? You mean before the line breaks down (<br>)?

Or do you mean total allowed characters in a cell?

The first one can simply be done by setting a width on the cell.

Code:

td {
width:200px;
}

The latter will need to be done with some sort of PHP I’d assume. Some sort of trim function.

[davidliu]

Thanks Doc!

I was going for the 2nd one, which is total characters allowed.

At the moment I got a fixed table-layout and applied this to the td:
table td {
background:#e8edff;
border-bottom:1px solid #fff;
border-left:1px solid #fff;
color:#336699;
border-top:1px solid transparent;
padding:8px;
text-overflow:ellipsis;
overflow:hidden;
white-space:nowrap;
}

I think I gotta go with the php thing, a friend will help me with that.

Thank you!

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