wrap long string in a table

I have a table defined with dynamic content being pushed into each cell. The problem I have is occassionally there may be a word or two that is so long it exceeds the width of the column and it stretches the entire table out.

I am looking for a way to instruct the system to break that long string and wrap it so the table dimensions always remain constant.

Any ideas?

Which server side scripting are you using?

There are normally functions that will do this for you.

You could also try putting this in your cell tag:

I am not sure that it will work though.

I tried this, unfortunately it did not work. I think this is for textarea only. My data is in the <td> part of a table.

Has anyone noticed when you write code on this forum it breaks the width? Can an admin alter the CSS file?

Have you set the width of the table? That might help.

max-width: xx px

I'm not entirely sure on it's behaviour in isolation with no spaced text. I do, however, know of a function in PHP which will perform the action you're after:

The arguments being: [Text] [Characters] [Terminate With]

The wordwrap function worked perfectly! Thanks!