Fixed Sized Columns in TABLE on screen

Rails
1

Hi,

I am attempting to do the following:

  1. Have a table with width = 100px
  2. Have 4 columns with width = 20px, 30px, 10px, 40px
  3. Have the content within the rows word wrapped as per the size of
    their respective columns - 20px, 30px, 10px, 40px

I am using Rails 2.3.2, want to avoid using ready-made plugins.

Can someone advise :slight_smile:

2

Ritvvij wrote:

Hi,

I am attempting to do the following:

  1. Have a table with width = 100px
    […]

Except perhaps for the word wrapping, this has nothing whatsoever to do
with Rails. This is a HTML/CSS issue, so look in CSS references for
answers.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

3

Yes I know. But… I mentioned Rails may be Rails has some helpers
which might help me in the process.
Even in CSS, does someone has some advise?

The word wrap it self has a helper in Rails. function. Word_wrap.
Can someone suggest how to refer this word_wrap
<%= word_wrap ( “sdnglsdngldsngldsngsdsdgdsg”, :line_width => 3 ) %>
dint work for me in a view file.
What am I doing wrong?

On Jun 18, 5:16 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

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What I have right now is:

Name ..... 
</tr>
<% @users.each do |user| %>
<tr class="<%= cycle :odd, :even %>">
    <td><%=h word_wrap(user.full_name, :line_width => 10) %></td>

And it does not wrap it… the column size increases :expressionless:
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Ritvvij wrote:

Hi,

I am attempting to do the following:

  1. Have a table with width = 100px
  2. Have 4 columns with width = 20px, 30px, 10px, 40px
  3. Have the content within the rows word wrapped as per the size of
    their respective columns - 20px, 30px, 10px, 40px

Tables do this automatically - what are we missing here?

Programmatically, if you really want to do in the server what your
browsers
could do, then word_wrap( :line_width => 3 ) might be giving you lines
with 3
characters, which is hardly what you need. And even if you figured out
the
number of characters in 30px, if the browser disagreed then it would
wrap your
wrap, and the lines would look disgusting.

–
Phlip