Re: OK, here's a new one

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2002

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 45488
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texte = I've used this in similar instances:[getcharsstart=1&end=30][description][/getchars]....GK| 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/ 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)

I've used this in similar instances:[getcharsstart=1&end=30][description][/getchars]....GK| 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/ Gary Krockover

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Re: OK, here's a new one

2002

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