overflow:hidden not working when using tables

Question

I’m having issues with long strings of text stretching out my tables and overflow:hidden does not seem to be doing what I exect. Here’s the sample code I am usi

Answer 1

Not sure if it isn't supposed to be working for table cells, but ideally you don't really want to hide them anyway. I suggest you hyphenate long words, which you can do easily with the following lib (only take few lines of js to implement):

http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/

Example:

http://hyphenator.googlecode.com/svn/tags/Version%202.2.0/WorkingExample.html