wrapping

[KENNNY]

I'm writing a forum system, and im trying to show a topic/thread, with all the posts listed down the page, like in any forum.

But, if someone writes a really long line in a post, without line breaks, then when i pull the text from the DB and put it in the page, the text of the post ends up as a reaaaly long line, so you have to scroll right in the browser (ugly). I need the text to wrap, like it does in these forums. I'm sure it's really simple, but i can't work it out
code:

<td width=100%>
<p><font face="Verdana" size=2 color=#000000><%=RsTopic("postbody")%>
</font>
</p>
</td>

untidy, but it doesn;t paste well.

[sebs]

the problem is width=100%

put it fixed and it will be ok

[KENNNY]

thanks, but what do you mean?

[Psyrus]

change the width to a value other than a percentage.

width = "400"

[KENNNY]

hmm..i tried doing that:

<table border=0 cellPadding=1 cellSpacing=3 bordercolor=Black bordercolordark=Black width="600">
<tr>
<td bgcolor=#99ccff width="600">
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color=Black>
<%=RsTopic("postbody")%>
</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

but the row still keeps expanding, i know it's more than 600 cos i have a table directly above it which *is* 600, and that works fine.
The text just doesn't want to wrap!

testing (ignore):

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