If you want to do it on the php side, I would do something like this: <a href="$fullURL">substr($fullURL, 0, 9)."..."</a> It would provide a valid link using the full url, but chop off everything after the 10th character and replace with a "...". Nate On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Boyd, Todd M. <tmboyd1@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brian Dunning [mailto:brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:27 PM > > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Splitting up long URLs > > > > I have a web page that lists "most recent comments" in a left margin. > > Sometimes people post long URLs, or even just really really long > > words, that force that margin to display way too wide, screwing up the > > page layout. Is there a way to make sure URLs or other text in a > > string gets split up so this doesn't happen? > > > > If there's a CSS solution that's better than a PHP solution I'll take > > that too. :-) > > STFW: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#white-space > > ...doesn't say much in the article about whether or not it will break up > "words" rather than lines, but it's worth a shot. > > > Todd Boyd > Web Programmer > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >