Hi,

anybody knows, if there's a way to split the HTML -page content automtically to pages. Like let's say that I have a div sized 400 x 300 px including just some text and it doesn't fit there and I don't want it to make any scrolls. In other words I just want it to create another page if the content grows too much, like for example over 500 chars. Does this make any sense? Thanks!

As far as I know, it's not possible and don't make much sense.
A web page is not a paper sheet.

I can understand what you are asking for this, but there is a problem with your thinking: your users.
A user might be visually challenged, and display the text with high contrast and 3000% zoom.
I worked with a secretary that had this disability.

In a more conventional way, what if a user configure his browser to have the fonts displayed 150%, because he finds more comfy to read ?

Another problem is that you cannot know what will be the size in pixels of a rendered text in your page.

Of course its possible. I have done it before, you need seperate pages and I can't remember exactly, but I think it is an str_split() function you need... wordwrap() is also helpful for stopping the lower scrollbars.

eg.

$string = str_spilt($string, 500);
$arrayno = $page - 1;
echo $string[$arrayno];
$count = count($string);
$i = 1;
while($i <= $count)
{
if($page != $i)
{
echo "<a href=page.php?page=$i>Page $i</a> || ";
}
}

Theres your basics if i'm right in my function names (no time to google), would need some personalising...

If helpful PLEASE add to my talkupation!

Originally Posted by mad_willsy

Of course its possible. I have done it before, you need seperate pages and I can't remember exactly, but I think it is an str_split() function you need... wordwrap() is also helpful for stopping the lower scrollbars.

Only if you understand what you're talking about.

Of course it's not possible without resorting to extremes! You can use one letter per page, and no graphics anywhere. Then you can be more or less certain the bulk of people won't have to scroll. You can also be pretty certain no one will stay.

My laptop has 1024x768 pixels. My desktop has 1600x1200 pixels. Do you see the problem here? Either I'm forced to scroll on my laptop, or have a lot of wasted space on my desktop. Now let's go ahead and throw another wrinkle into your evil plan: I never use my browser window maximized. That's right, even if I have 1.9 million pixels on the screen, the browser doesn't get all of them!

CSS fluid layouts help some. But never having to scroll is an elusive goal that will turn you crazy. Give up now, while there's still time!