Re: OK, here's a new one

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2002

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 45487
interpreted = N
texte = Why not [getchars start=&end=35] .. ? Or whatever # is right ..> Our site lists 6 products on the home page that are specials.> > A table is generated by search. Each cell in this table is another> table that looks like so:> > > ____________________> | | |> | | T |> | P |___________|> | | |> | | D |> |_______|____________|> > Where P is the product image, T is the Title of the Product and D is a> text description of varying length. Right now this mostly works fine,> and what I've done with the text description is to use [listwords] to> reel of the first 15 words of the description, like so:> > [listwords words=[description]&delimiters= ][showif> [index]<16][word][/showif] [/listwords]...> > This is OK, except for one thing. Since words are of differing lengths,> some descriptions end up longer than others, and it ends up looking> crappy visually. What I'd like to do is to parse enough text of each> description that each D box is essentially filled.> > I suppose I could fix the height of the box and fiddle with the number> of words parsed, but I was wondering of there was a spiffier way. I'm> wracking my brain here. Anyone with some ideas?> > TAM,> > -Will> > > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: OK, here's a new one (Rob Marquardt 2002)
Re: OK, here's a new one (Robert Wade 2002)
Re: OK, here's a new one (Chris List Recipient 2002)
Re: OK, here's a new one (Gary Krockover 2002)
Re: OK, here's a new one (WJ Starck 2002)
Re: OK, here's a new one (Dan Strong 2002)
Re: OK, here's a new one (Tim Robinson 2002)
Re: OK, here's a new one (WJ Starck 2002)
Re: OK, here's a new one (Gary Krockover 2002)
Re: OK, here's a new one (Alain Russell 2002)
OK, here's a new one (WJ Starck 2002)

Why not [getchars start=&end=35] .. ? Or whatever # is right ..> Our site lists 6 products on the home page that are specials.> > A table is generated by search. Each cell in this table is another> table that looks like so:> > > ____________________> | | |> | | T |> | P |___________|> | | |> | | D |> |_______|____________|> > Where P is the product image, T is the Title of the Product and D is a> text description of varying length. Right now this mostly works fine,> and what I've done with the text description is to use [listwords] to> reel of the first 15 words of the description, like so:> > [listwords words=[description]&delimiters= ][showif> [index]<16][word][/showif] [/listwords]...> > This is OK, except for one thing. Since words are of differing lengths,> some descriptions end up longer than others, and it ends up looking> crappy visually. What I'd like to do is to parse enough text of each> description that each D box is essentially filled.> > I suppose I could fix the height of the box and fiddle with the number> of words parsed, but I was wondering of there was a spiffier way. I'm> wracking my brain here. Anyone with some ideas?> > TAM,> > -Will> > > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Alain Russell

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Re: OK, here's a new one

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