shorten td with overflow:hidden not possible?

shorten td with overflow:hidden not possible?

achlanachlan Posts: 20Questions: 0Answers: 0
edited December 2009 in General
Hi,
I´m often having longer contents inside some td. Usually I cut that with css overflow:hidden, so that my td allways has the desired width.
When the datatable ist rendered the overflow doesn´t affect the td.
I also tried to get it with scripting like
[code]
"fnInitComplete": function() {
$('#example td').css({"overflow":"hidden"});
}
[/code]
with no effect...
Is there a way to use overflow:hidden on datatables td and how?

Achlan.

Replies

  • allanallan Posts: 63,498Questions: 1Answers: 10,470 Site admin
    Hi Achlan,

    Given that the TD element is display:table-cell, rather than display:block I'm not sure how the overflow will effect it - referring to the specs would probably tell us.

    There has been some discussion about using ellipsis with DataTables:

    http://datatables.net/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=208
    http://datatables.net/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=30
    http://datatables.net/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=132

    Beyond that, perhaps asking in an HTML help forum might yield a better answer :-)

    Regards,
    Allan
  • achlanachlan Posts: 20Questions: 0Answers: 0
    Hi Allan,

    omg, I thougt it´s some specific problems with css overflow and some datatables functionality, sry.
    So it´s just html/css... ;-)
    My first solution is simply placing a div inside the td with css white-space:nowrap and overflow:hidden...
    This will fix it till I´ll find a better way.

    Thank you!

    Regards,
    Achlan.
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