Repeating table wrap text

I have a repeating table which contains a text field. Some of the entries are a little to long to allow a good fit within the cell. I wondered if there was a way I could cause the text to wrap around in the cell after say 50 characters?
Thanks

John

Sure... you could simply add the php word wrap command as follows:

$text = $row_yourQuery['textcolumn'];

$text = wordwrap($text, 50, "\n", true);

echo $text;

The command is wordwrap. You'll notice the "50" is designated for the number of characters. Then comes the line break. Use "true" if you want it to break apart words and "false" if you want to leave words complete before break.

Best regards,

Brian

Many thanks Brian

The code I have for the text is
<?php echo $row_rsCategory['ProductName']; ?>

can you please indicate how I apply your code
$text = $row_yourQuery['textcolumn'];
$text = wordwrap($text, 50, "\n", true);
echo $text;
to this field?

As you can guess I am a complete newbie with php

change your code:

<?php echo $row_rsCategory['ProductName']; ?>

to:

<?php echo(wordwrap($row_rsCategory['ProductName'], 50, "\n", true)); ?>

Thank you for the help.

I placed the new code in and changed the length to 30 and tried 40 characters but the number of letters in the field do not seem to change. Did I do something wrong please?

Please see attached images for details

try using this code then:

<?php echo(wordwrap($row_rsCategory['ProductName'], 50, "<br />\n", true)); ?>

Yes that "<br />\n" did the trick.

Many thanks for the help.

Regards

John

you're welcome.