Re: Table cell overlap?

If you are putting text in a table cell why not just use nowrap inside the
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Smith" <avalon73(at)arthurian.nu>
To: "Comharsa" <comharsa(at)clara.net>
Cc: "HWG - Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: Table cell overlap?


> On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Comharsa wrote:
>
> > The table cell containing the menu is set to 17%. Try changing it to a
> > fixed pixel size or put in a spacer.gif to hold it wide enough for
> > smaller browsers.
>
> I wold try that (and yeah, it's crossed my mind to try that before), but
> one thing I don't like doing is setting the table cell width to a fixed
> pixel size when I'm not putting a graphic (that's part of the page and not
> just a spacer) in there that would dictate the pixel width, since it's
> impossible to tell beforehand what pixel width a certain string is going
> to be in a given font on a given system.
>
> Perhaps if I shorten that string that's overlapping?
>
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