I'm working on a app that helps build quotes and invoices. On one of the pages, I have a datagrid to display a table of all items that have been added so far. To help control the layout, I put this datagrid in a scrolling DIV, so that a maximum of 5 items are displayed, and a vertical scroll bar appears.
This is working great, except under one condition - if a description is entered that is too long for the table cell. Because of the way I have it formatted, I can't have cells wrap their contents, and I can't have a horizontal scroll bar. What I need to do is either truncate strings that take up too much space, or figure out a way to strictly enforce the table width no matter how large the contents.
I've got a sample of the output here:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/jasongraham/divscroll.html
View source to see how each is set up.
The third one is closest to what I need, but the right scrollbar is being cut off.
Any suggestions on how I can handle this? I'd truncate the description strings, but comparing character counts won't work because I'm not using a font with fixed character widths (i.e. "iiiiiiiiii" takes up much less space than "OOOOOOOOOO")
This is working great, except under one condition - if a description is entered that is too long for the table cell. Because of the way I have it formatted, I can't have cells wrap their contents, and I can't have a horizontal scroll bar. What I need to do is either truncate strings that take up too much space, or figure out a way to strictly enforce the table width no matter how large the contents.
I've got a sample of the output here:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/jasongraham/divscroll.html
View source to see how each is set up.
The third one is closest to what I need, but the right scrollbar is being cut off.
Any suggestions on how I can handle this? I'd truncate the description strings, but comparing character counts won't work because I'm not using a font with fixed character widths (i.e. "iiiiiiiiii" takes up much less space than "OOOOOOOOOO")
