Re: OK, here's a new one

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2002

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texte = I'm preparing to do this same sort of thing and was thinking of settling on exactly how many *characters*, (including spaces, etc.) I needed to fill my boxes, and then cut off the descriptions there and add a ...more >> link to go to the full description/prod. detail.If the final cutoff occurred in the middle of a word, I figured I would replace the final cutoff word characters with spaces, leaving the ...more >> link in the same place.Makes sense in my head... :)-Dan------------------------------------------------------------http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com(208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656------------------------------------------------------------NEW! Do-It-Yourself Printing: http://sgd.cceasy.comOn Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:46:20 -0600 WJ Starck wrote:>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)

I'm preparing to do this same sort of thing and was thinking of settling on exactly how many *characters*, (including spaces, etc.) I needed to fill my boxes, and then cut off the descriptions there and add a ...more >> link to go to the full description/prod. detail.If the final cutoff occurred in the middle of a word, I figured I would replace the final cutoff word characters with spaces, leaving the ...more >> link in the same place.Makes sense in my head... :)-Dan------------------------------------------------------------http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com(208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656------------------------------------------------------------NEW! Do-It-Yourself Printing: http://sgd.cceasy.comOn Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:46:20 -0600 WJ Starck wrote:>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/ Dan Strong

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Re: OK, here's a new one

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