Long text in small area

Senior WebHelper Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 153

I am working on a site now and I have a little problem. In the layout there is a small space where the newest forum posts are sussposed to go, but as you know the title of a forum post could be very long. Do you guys have any suggestions about how to fix this problem? So that if someone posts a long title it scrolls or somthing. I just dont want the text to go out of the area.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Try this:

Code:

$title_short = substr_replace($title, '...', 22);

Then you could also use a title tag to show the full title on mouse hover. This is the system we're using for the news on the main 4WebHelp site. However, depending on the space you have available, this may not be necessary, since phpBB post titles have a limited length anyway.