I want to put some text in a tool tip, however some texts are longer than the screen is wide. Is it possible to define a certain width for a tool tip text and have textappearing therein word wrap to the width?
Dunno about what your asking, but might putting in “enters” in your string of text make it multiline?
Paul
The amount of area in the description field in the attached tab panel will not allow the user to see the complete message. I put the description as tool tip text, but as you can see, the description in the tool tip does not fit the screen. I would like to format the tool tip text so that it will be limited to a size that would fit on the screen. I want the text within the tool tip to word wrap within those boundries. Any ideas?
You will have to use HTML for that.
html with breaks ```
Thanks for the suggestion Jan, but that will not work for me because I don’t know where, nor do I want to place breaks in the text.
I think I have solved the problem with the following HTML code attached to the tool tip text:
%%description%%
I don’t know if this is the long way around this problem, but hey, It works!
Now, no matter how much text is in the description field it will wrap close to 550 pixels.
Great tip! So - you have the tooltips in a “description” column in a database somplace?
Neato.
Bob Cusick
If you mean do I have a database of tool tip texts that I can use perhaps to provide multiple language support for tool tips? the answer is, No - I wish I could take credit for that creativity! My purpose was only to show to the user the data in a field that did not fit in the field space of a form. The problem was that sometimes there is a full paragraph of text in a field, and sometimes when I displayed that paragraph in a tool tip, it still was enough space. I just needed to have the text soft word wrap within the tool tip text. A single column HTML table fit the bill nicely.