Sent by Ben Henick on 4 December 2004 13:01
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, David Graham wrote:
> If the caption exceeds the width of the pic, I want the caption text to
> wrap no wider than the width of the pic. If I put the pic and the
> caption in a table, then the table expands to the width of the pic and
> the text wraps at that point. If I use a CSS approach and put the pic
I'd like to see *that* - I was under the impression that a table would do
the same thing as your notional div.
> and caption into a div, the div continues to stretch as far as the text
> goes (or until it hits the edge of a parent container).
>
> It looks like the only way I can do this with CSS is to fix the width
> of the div, but I there's no built-in FileMaker function that I can use
> to derive the width of the pic. I really don't want to use a table for
> this for obvious reasons, but I'm stuck. Help!
....It surprises me that the photos aren't constrained to a preset height
or width (depending on their aspect ratioes). But I digress.
There's no broadly-supported, consistent way to do what you're asking
for... without scripting. *sigh*
That thumping you hear is the sound of me kicking Internet Explorer.
The script itself isn't that hard to write or comprehend; if you want an
example reply offlist.
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