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

[Antony C. <an...@sm...>]

On 22 Jun 2006, at 13:10, Jon Maber wrote:

> 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

Neither does the css solution!-)

>  - 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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