how to crop text inside an HTML table cell without changing the actual cell width?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you mean by crop text. If you mean keep the table cell a certain width, you need to set the width, thats the only way.

If you mean to keep the cell a certain height, use css -
lots of content
thats too large

Answer 2

While displaying the content, truncate it. This can be done like this:
1) if you are displaying dynamic content i.e. content read from database, then in your SELECT statement, use substr( ) to truncate the text
2) if you displaying static text, then you should manually truncate text using a javascript function or vbscript function

Answer 3

If you mean crop it as in so it's like [This text is too bi...] Then you can't do it in HTML. Best bet to do it without anything like ASP or PHP would be to use JavaScript and substring it.

Answer 4

If all else fails, can you create another spacer cell? Try that

Answer 5

or whatever number of pixels you want.