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Posted by Ed Jay on February 6, 2008, 1:30 pm
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David E. Ross scribed:
>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%.
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>Because my eyes are getting older, my screen resolution is 800x600. A
>max-width of 1100px would still require horizontal scrolling.
You could change it from 1100 to 800, or whatever you want. That said, the
other fella who posted was correct...my technique won't stop someone from
typing 'width:2000px' and defeating the purpose of max-width.
>
>Many people still prefer ASCII-formatted E-mail. Some even trash any
>HTML-formatted messages.
People stubbornly do a lot of foolish things...trashing HTML emails without
bothering to note the sender is only one example.
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Ed Jay (remove 'M' to respond by email)
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