If I understand you correctly, you want <pre> with word-wrap? <pre> should only be used when the text you want to display is infact preformatted, such as indented code. Applying word-wrap to such text would be by definition to format it (and thus render in un-preformatted (sic)).
If the text from the database is not actually preformatted beyond linebreaks, why don't you do a search and replace on the text from the database to format it properly. e.g. text_in_page = '<p>' + replace(text_from_db, chr(13), '</p><p>') + '</p>' ...or use '<br />' if a new paragraph is improper. Jachin Sheehy On 10/25/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Other than a scroll bar (overflow) there is no solution? > > The reason I need to use <pre> is that the content comes from a database that > doesn't use HTML <br>'s, but normal linebreaks. So to format the text > correctly I need to put it in <pre> tags, but of course I want it to still > fit into the rest of the content. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
