Hi guys,
Here am I again, this time with another question but before I ask it, i'd like to thank you all for taking the time to read my postings and answer questions.

I have some content within a div. the overflow is set to hidden. if i change the size of the div, the content gets chopped off at the right margin and the text does not wrap. i tried overflow visible but that enlarges the box. so what is the problem?

first you show me ur website so i am see what is the problem on ur webpage.

You might try

overflow:auto;

Is the text made up of words and proper sentences with breaks between the words .. or is it just example text with no spaces ?

The box has regular sentences.

I tried wrap "auto" but then that option displays scroll bars.

I am using the Multiflex template which i edit in Dreamweaver. I don't know what i did to the template, but now i cannot display all the text within the box. If all else fails, i'll just cut the div out and paste a new one.

Do you have it online where we can see it ?

Hidden will chop it off, Auto will add scrollbars, Visible will overflow it outside the containing element, what you want is word wrapping.

Until CSS3 is finalised you have to work out your own word wrap method, MS has a non-standard way to do it, so if you do use that, put it in an IE conditional comment and that will solve it for IE, but what about the other browsers.

Javascript could be used to do this and is probably the best means till we get some more useful styling. Just do a search for javascript word wrap, that should turn up some useful functions.

Cheers,

MC

MC, I don't see how you can make such a recommendation w/o even seeing the actual code the OP is working with. It could be something very simple. In addition, if any user has Javascript turned off, there goes your 'solution' out the window.