Re: [Bodington-developers] Top frame styling improvement - commited to HEAD

[Jon M. <jo...@te...>]

Antony Corfield wrote:
> The title of the resource will still appear in full at the top of the  
> resource page, this is just truncation for navigation div - the method  
> could truncate at a reasonably logical place I guess!
>   
It doesn't really work - you will never know what size the font is or 
what width the window is so can't calculate a text length. It's better 
to define the box within which the text should appear and make sure that 
the text doesn't escape from that box. In the glorious future the best 
way to do that is in a non-frames page using a div with the max-height 
property set and with the overspill clipped or scrolled.  Low tech. 
browser solution would be with a table.
> On 22 Jun 2006, at 11:15, Matthew Buckett wrote:
>
>   
>> Antony Corfield wrote:
>>     
>>> How about a much simpler approach?!! Just add a method 'public static
>>> String trimText(String text, int maxLength)' to
>>> org.bodington.util.TextUtils and use that whenever there's a limited
>>> space for displaying text? Could always use title attribute in link to
>>> display full text. As I said we've also removed search and links from
>>> the navigation div so we have more space to play with.
>>>       
>> If we are going to truncate peoples titles we should decide where we
>> normally truncate and tell people so that they can try and have shorter
>> titles so they are aware where it would be truncated.
>>
>> 30 characters?
>>
>> Even in our default install we have titles of 50+ characters ( User
>> Administration for System Administration zone. ).
>>
>> I don't think actually limiting people to only 30 characters is  
>> sensible.
>>
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