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Posted by David E. Ross on February 6, 2008, 12:48 pm
Please log in for more thread options On 2/6/2008 6:02 AM, Ed Jay wrote:
> Ben C scribed:
>
>>> I have an application that sends HTML emails. The HTML is basically a
>>> template that I provide, but part of the HTML is supplied by the
>>> user. Sometimes the user inadvertently supplies HTML which cause the
>>> the email recipient to have to scroll horizontally to see it. Is
>>> there any tag that I can use in my template to enclose the user HTML
>>> to make sure that doesn't happen? I've tried enclosing it in <table
>>> width="100%"> but that doesn't prevent the problem.
>> In general, no, apart from a rule like body { overflow: hidden }. Then
>> they wouldn't be able to scroll, but the missing content would just be
>> clipped, which would be even worse.
>
> How about limiting the body width:
>
> body {
> max-width: 1100px;
> width:expression(document.body.clientWidth > 1100? "1100px": "100%" );
> }
>
> The 2nd line (width:expression....) is to limit the width in IE(6), which
> doesn't support the max-width property. It's a conditional expression that
> says 'if the width is greater than 1100px, then width = 1100px, else
> width = 100%.
Because my eyes are getting older, my screen resolution is 800x600. A
max-width of 1100px would still require horizontal scrolling.
Many people still prefer ASCII-formatted E-mail. Some even trash any
HTML-formatted messages.
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