I use FP 2003.

How do I make a text paragraph anchored to the left and cropped on the right
side
as a browser's window gets narrower horizontally.
It seems that the default behavior is text-wrapped around when I make the
window narrower.

Thanks,
David

> How do I make a text paragraph anchored to the left and cropped on the
> right
> side
> as a browser's window gets narrower horizontally.
> It seems that the default behavior is text-wrapped around when I make the
> window narrower.

Not sure what you mean by "anchored to the left and cropped on the right
side".

Do you mean that you want the column of text to be the same width regardless
of the size of the browser window?


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Put the text in a fixed-width table.

Bob Lehmann

"David F" <David-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I use FP 2003.
>
> How do I make a text paragraph anchored to the left and cropped on the
right
> side
> as a browser's window gets narrower horizontally.
> It seems that the default behavior is text-wrapped around when I make the
> window narrower.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>

Do I have to use tables for just avoiding wrapping?
Actually one would think that cropping is simpler than wrapping the text.

David

"Bob Lehmann" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Put the text in a fixed-width table.
>
> Bob Lehmann
>
> "David F" <David-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:O%(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I use FP 2003.
> >
> > How do I make a text paragraph anchored to the left and cropped on the
> right
> > side
> > as a browser's window gets narrower horizontally.
> > It seems that the default behavior is text-wrapped around when I make
the
> > window narrower.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> >
>
>

I did not say that I have even a column at all. Just text in a page.
If understand you correct it may be one interpretation but it sounds
complicated.
I will try to phrase it again:
Anchoring to the left means that the beginning of each line remains the
beginning of
the line as the windows gets narrower and the right side of the text is
dropped off
as the display window gets narrower. When you do that with pictures it is
called cropping.

David

"P@tty Ayers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> > How do I make a text paragraph anchored to the left and cropped on the
> > right
> > side
> > as a browser's window gets narrower horizontally.
> > It seems that the default behavior is text-wrapped around when I make
the
> > window narrower.
>
> Not sure what you mean by "anchored to the left and cropped on the right
> side".
>
> Do you mean that you want the column of text to be the same width
regardless
> of the size of the browser window?
>
>
> --
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> Free Articles on the Business of Web Development
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>

There is not method in HTML to crop text. You can use a PRE or BLOCKQUOTE tag to force the text to
not wrap as the browser window is resized.

Why do you want to force your site visitors to scroll right to read your content, just because they
choose to re-size their browser window to their needs, when the norm is to allow the text to wrap?

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"David F" <David-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I did not say that I have even a column at all. Just text in a page.
> If understand you correct it may be one interpretation but it sounds
> complicated.
> I will try to phrase it again:
> Anchoring to the left means that the beginning of each line remains the
> beginning of
> the line as the windows gets narrower and the right side of the text is
> dropped off
> as the display window gets narrower. When you do that with pictures it is
> called cropping.
>
> David
>
> "P@tty Ayers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> > How do I make a text paragraph anchored to the left and cropped on the
>> > right
>> > side
>> > as a browser's window gets narrower horizontally.
>> > It seems that the default behavior is text-wrapped around when I make
> the
>> > window narrower.
>>
>> Not sure what you mean by "anchored to the left and cropped on the right
>> side".
>>
>> Do you mean that you want the column of text to be the same width
> regardless
>> of the size of the browser window?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Patty Ayers | www.WebDevBiz.com
>> Free Articles on the Business of Web Development
>> Web Design Contract, Estimate Request Form, Estimate Worksheet
>> --
>>
>>
>
>

1. The BLOCKQUOTE tag did not work.
2. Maybe I don't insert it correctly but weirdly enough, neither one of the
terms PRE, PREFORMATTED or BLOCKQUOTE can be found in the help (not even
searching in MS Office Online (and by the way, how come I by default being
forced to search online first and why is it better at all then offline
search). Even more weird is that while search for PREFORMATTED resulted 0
found, PREFORMATTED TEXT yielded results (only in MS search...) but none of
them helped (or I may have not looked good enough).
3. When I insert (manually) the PRE tag, it seems to do the job but with
unbearable price: It introduces huge spacing like several lines between
each line. I have tried to insert these tags in several ways.

As to your question:
1. By letting the text to wrap, you don't save scrolling - you merely have
to scroll more vertically than horizontally.
2. I have seen many web pages that crop rather then wrap and in all those I
have seen it makes sense.
3. Just to begin with, in FP 2003, when you select a 'design' view, it does
cropping rather then wrapping.... w/o me doing anything and even though IE
would wrap the very same page.
4. Altogether, I think that in some cases it makes more sense to scroll
vertically more while in other cases it is clearly preferred to scroll
horizontally, if you really want to see wide line with narrow windows.

David

"Thomas A. Rowe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> There is not method in HTML to crop text. You can use a PRE or BLOCKQUOTE
tag to force the text to
> not wrap as the browser window is resized.
>
> Why do you want to force your site visitors to scroll right to read your
content, just because they
> choose to re-size their browser window to their needs, when the norm is to
allow the text to wrap?
>
> --
> ==============================================
> Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
> WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
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> ==============================================
> To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
> http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
>
> "David F" <David-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I did not say that I have even a column at all. Just text in a page.
> > If understand you correct it may be one interpretation but it sounds
> > complicated.
> > I will try to phrase it again:
> > Anchoring to the left means that the beginning of each line remains the
> > beginning of
> > the line as the windows gets narrower and the right side of the text is
> > dropped off
> > as the display window gets narrower. When you do that with pictures it
is
> > called cropping.
> >
> > David
> >
> > "P@tty Ayers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >>
> >> > How do I make a text paragraph anchored to the left and cropped on
the
> >> > right
> >> > side
> >> > as a browser's window gets narrower horizontally.
> >> > It seems that the default behavior is text-wrapped around when I make
> > the
> >> > window narrower.
> >>
> >> Not sure what you mean by "anchored to the left and cropped on the
right
> >> side".
> >>
> >> Do you mean that you want the column of text to be the same width
> > regardless
> >> of the size of the browser window?
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Patty Ayers | www.WebDevBiz.com
> >> Free Articles on the Business of Web Development
> >> Web Design Contract, Estimate Request Form, Estimate Worksheet
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

See inline below.

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"David F" <David-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> 1. The BLOCKQUOTE tag did not work.
> 2. Maybe I don't insert it correctly but weirdly enough, neither one of the
> terms PRE, PREFORMATTED or BLOCKQUOTE can be found in the help (not even
> searching in MS Office Online (and by the way, how come I by default being
> forced to search online first and why is it better at all then offline
> search). Even more weird is that while search for PREFORMATTED resulted 0
> found, PREFORMATTED TEXT yielded results (only in MS search...) but none of
> them helped (or I may have not looked good enough).
> 3. When I insert (manually) the PRE tag, it seems to do the job but with
> unbearable price: It introduces huge spacing like several lines between
> each line. I have tried to insert these tags in several ways.

Personally, I don't use any of those tags, since it affect the page layout.

>
> As to your question:
> 1. By letting the text to wrap, you don't save scrolling - you merely have
> to scroll more vertically than horizontally.

Users are use to scrolling down a page whether it is on the internet or in desktop applications.

> 2. I have seen many web pages that crop rather then wrap and in all those I
> have seen it makes sense.

This I think tend to happen when the page is designed using layers, I could be wrong on this.

> 3. Just to begin with, in FP 2003, when you select a 'design' view, it does
> cropping rather then wrapping.... w/o me doing anything and even though IE
> would wrap the very same page.

I have never had that happen in any version of FP, but I really don't use FP2003 for production
work.

> 4. Altogether, I think that in some cases it makes more sense to scroll
> vertically more while in other cases it is clearly preferred to scroll
> horizontally, if you really want to see wide line with narrow windows.

To each his own. <vbg>

>
> David
>
> "Thomas A. Rowe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> There is not method in HTML to crop text. You can use a PRE or BLOCKQUOTE
> tag to force the text to
>> not wrap as the browser window is resized.
>>
>> Why do you want to force your site visitors to scroll right to read your
> content, just because they
>> choose to re-size their browser window to their needs, when the norm is to
> allow the text to wrap?
>>
>> --
>> ==============================================
>> Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
>> WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
>> http://www.ycoln-resources.com
>> FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
>> ==============================================
>> To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
>> http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
>>
>> "David F" <David-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >I did not say that I have even a column at all. Just text in a page.
>> > If understand you correct it may be one interpretation but it sounds
>> > complicated.
>> > I will try to phrase it again:
>> > Anchoring to the left means that the beginning of each line remains the
>> > beginning of
>> > the line as the windows gets narrower and the right side of the text is
>> > dropped off
>> > as the display window gets narrower. When you do that with pictures it
> is
>> > called cropping.
>> >
>> > David
>> >
>> > "P@tty Ayers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >>
>> >> > How do I make a text paragraph anchored to the left and cropped on
> the
>> >> > right
>> >> > side
>> >> > as a browser's window gets narrower horizontally.
>> >> > It seems that the default behavior is text-wrapped around when I make
>> > the
>> >> > window narrower.
>> >>
>> >> Not sure what you mean by "anchored to the left and cropped on the
> right
>> >> side".
>> >>
>> >> Do you mean that you want the column of text to be the same width
>> > regardless
>> >> of the size of the browser window?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Patty Ayers | www.WebDevBiz.com
>> >> Free Articles on the Business of Web Development
>> >> Web Design Contract, Estimate Request Form, Estimate Worksheet
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

Browsers are designed to automatically wrap text, so stopping the
wrapping takes extra effort.
If you do not put the text in a fixed width container (tables are
universally supported) the only other ways are to use the <pre> text
</pre> tags (which you have already rejected) or to use an image to
provide a minimum width to the page.

The FrontPage design view is preset to the page width you choose (see
the bottom right of the FrontPage window which shows the page
dimensions.)

Most users object to left-right scrolling, and long lines of text are
much more difficult to read than short lines, which is why magazines
and newspapers divide pages into columns. Long lines with left/right
scrolling? That is the worst combination ever.

About a third (or more) of the browsers in use today are set to a
width of 800px. That's a lot of people to annoy.

--
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Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
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"David F" <David-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Do I have to use tables for just avoiding wrapping?
> Actually one would think that cropping is simpler than wrapping the
> text.
>
> David
>
> "Bob Lehmann" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Put the text in a fixed-width table.
>>
>> Bob Lehmann
>>
>> "David F" <David-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:O%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > I use FP 2003.
>> >
>> > How do I make a text paragraph anchored to the left and cropped
>> > on the
>> right
>> > side
>> > as a browser's window gets narrower horizontally.
>> > It seems that the default behavior is text-wrapped around when I
>> > make
> the
>> > window narrower.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > David
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

>Actually one would think that cropping is simpler than wrapping the text.
That may be true, but it is not an option.

Bob Lehmann

"David F" <David-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:udj%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Do I have to use tables for just avoiding wrapping?
> Actually one would think that cropping is simpler than wrapping the text.
>
> David
>
> "Bob Lehmann" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Put the text in a fixed-width table.
> >
> > Bob Lehmann
> >
> > "David F" <David-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:O%(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > I use FP 2003.
> > >
> > > How do I make a text paragraph anchored to the left and cropped on the
> > right
> > > side
> > > as a browser's window gets narrower horizontally.
> > > It seems that the default behavior is text-wrapped around when I make
> the
> > > window narrower.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>