Column Stretching

leonta2010

Hi,
One of my column has a long text and is stretching my column. How can i force it to wrap?
thank You
leon

allan

You could set the width of the column using sWidth, or put a
tag in the header. Do you have white-space: nowrap in your CSS for the header, that would cause it as well.

Allan

leonta2010

thanks Allen...my data cell is causing the problem. One of my data cell has 80 chars long.

would this method work in data cell too?

leon

allan

Hi Leon,

You could use a
tag to force a break, or you could wrap the content of the cell in a DIV element at use the text-overflow: ellipsis option of CSS3. Equally there are a number of ellipsis options either for Javascript and DataTables on the server-side. This post, and the posts link to from it, might be of some interest in that area: http://www.datatables.net/forums/discussion/1711/wrap-text-on-any-character/p1 (there are other posts on ellipsis as well, just search the forum :-) ).

Allan