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):

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwwwwwwwwwww