long URLs

[David Shorthouse]

Hey folks,

Is anyone aware of any sort of asp coding to deal with long URLs? I have a
few asp that pull URLs from fields within a MS db, which then display on a
width-limited table. Is there any way to wrap these long URLs such that my
table doesn't get widened? e.g. wrapping at "/" or something similar?

Thanks for any advice,

Dave
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[Drew]

Maybe instead of showing the url, you can do this,

<a href=<%=rsURL("URL")%>>Click Here</a>

Would that work?

HTH,
Drew

 

[Drew]

Sorry, my code is off... here is a correction,

<a href="<%=(rsURL.Fields.Item("URL").Value)%>">Click Here</a>

There you go,
Drew

 

[Kyle Peterson]

You could do somethinguse the Left function to only show the 1st 25 or so
characters of the url.
But always put the full url in the href code for the link

<a href="<% =CmdListInfo("URL") %>"><% = Left(CmdListInfo("URL").Value),25)
%></a>

http://www.powerasp.com/content/new/function-reference-46.htm

 

[David Shorthouse]

Thanks for the idea. Well, yes, that would work but would mean someone
couldn't print the pages from their browser and be able to visit those URLs
unless I specified this differently in a print css.

Dave

 

[David Shorthouse]

That's not a bad idea. Thanks.

Dave

 

[McKirahan]

Hey folks,

Is anyone aware of any sort of asp coding to deal with long URLs? I have a
few asp that pull URLs from fields within a MS db, which then display on a
width-limited table. Is there any way to wrap these long URLs such that my
table doesn't get widened? e.g. wrapping at "/" or something similar?

Thanks for any advice,

Dave

Perhaps (but doubtfully):

http://tinyurl.com/

"Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent
causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you've
come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we
will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never
expires."

 

[Thomas]

well, if the url is very long anyway, who would type it of a printed
document? ;-)

a solution might be do use some sort of redirecting on your site, ie
when the user types in http://mysite.com/show.asp?id=123 he is being
forwarded (request.redirect) to
http://mysite.com/somethingverylong/andhereisthepage.asp?withsome=options...

- thomas