quick question on table data<td>

jank

this may be a dumb question but anyway
is there a way to specify a maxlength in td tag

i have data coming from a a mysql data base and some od the data are going off the screen like so

"32132b31b2322132b1321321b3213233b213213213213213213213213213213213213213213213a21321a321321321a3213232131a543547858976234213"`

(sorry)
i want it to be broken into 2 or 3 lines like so
"
143241a343243a24d214d324
32423a1432d14a21d32d412a432
432432432142432432a432"

thought that this would be an easy way around it
sorry about the mess but im working with raw hex payloads here so it aint much different and sorriy if in the wrong forum.

buddy

How about specifying something like td width=100%

richardo

Or set it to a fixed absolute width <td width='100'>

JustHalf

I think you need to look at your over-all strategy. First, why are you displaying the data in the first place?

If you're displaying the data to be read from the screen, any solution that does not display all of the data isn't going to work all that well.

You could look at using the CSS overflow: property to add scroll-bars to the cell if it gets too large/

HTML:

<table class="magictables">
  <tr>
    <td>DATADATADATADATA....</td>
  </tr>
</table>

CSS:

table.magictables tr td {
  overflow: auto;
  }

I don't know if that'll work though, you might have to add in a wrapper div:

HTML:

<table class="magictables">
  <tr>
    <td><div class="bigdata">DATADATADATADATA....</div></td>
  </tr>
</table>

CSS:

table.magictables tr td div.bigdata {
  overflow: auto;
  }

And cleaned up:

HTML:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td><div class="bigdata">DATADATADATADATA....</div></td>
  </tr>
</table>

CSS:

div.bigdata {
  overflow: auto;
  }

These are just ideas; I haven't tested them out, so there's no guarantee they'll work. This is something you should look at though.

jank

i need to display the data to teh screen

sorry if i wasnt clear the <TD width=100> doeant work
it only gives me blank cells
what i wanted was the to FORCE the data to loop onto another row or line
ie. once it hit the end of the cell it would go to a new line and then print out more data and so on so...
thought there would be an easy solution but it dont think so

im using php(only for a week or two) aswell so is there a function can tie in with the output?

Ph3n0m

Originally posted by jank
i need to display the data to teh screen

sorry if i wasnt clear the <TD width=100> doeant work
it only gives me blank cells
what i wanted was the to FORCE the data to loop onto another row or line
ie. once it hit the end of the cell it would go to a new line and then print out more data and so on so...
thought there would be an easy solution but it dont think so

im using php(only for a week or two) aswell so is there a function can tie in with the output?

I am presumming there is no break in the data?? i.e. "234234234234" and not "2342 234234 234234"

unfortunately no browser automatically breaks a string of data up like that, there has to be a physical break in the data, i.e. spaces this allows a browser to "wrap" text in a cell.


With php you can use this function


http://ie2.php.net/wordwrap


very nice to use - but you should really avoid using data with no breaks

jank

yea cheers that worked a treat
[PHP]$data = wordwrap($myrow[ip_payload], 30, "\n", 1);[/PHP]
then just echo the $data

i couldnt break the data up because the data are payloads from from snort

cheers again