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Text Columns... Grab content and process depending on length


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fsapa

Community Member, 1 Post

25 March 2009 at 10:04pm

Hi!

I'd like to make a theme that displays the text content in columns. However, as my theme is a horizontal layout, I need an undetermined number of columns. I have no problems making the columns themselves... it's just plain HTML + CSS.

The real problem is to get the content, get the number of characters, divide by 800 (my char limit), round it up, then print a <td>content here</td> for each 800-char packet. The Css will take care of the rest.

As you see, I've got a fairly good idea of what to do, and if it was just PHP I'd already have finished. But I just can't seem to find: a) a way to get the length of the content; and b) a way to make the above into something usable by the template...

So?

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Briohny

Community Member, 199 Posts

27 April 2009 at 3:37am

Hi fsapa,

Did you have any luck with this? I would like to know also.

Let me know.

Cheers.

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Briohny

Community Member, 199 Posts

27 April 2009 at 3:41am

I guess you probably used HTMLEditorFields?

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Junglefish

Community Member, 109 Posts

16 October 2009 at 4:18am

Ditto.

Is there such a thing as a length() function you can use in a ss page? Sort of like length($Content)?

jf/