[solved] Alternative to overflow="hidden" for table cells?

[Andreas Hartmann <an...@apache.org>]

Hi Jeremias,

Jeremias Maerki schrieb:
> If you look at http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#fo_table-cell, you'll see
> that "overflow" is not in the list of applicable properties. That's
> because table-cell only generates a reference area but no viewport area.
> 
> If you want to make sure that cell content is clipped you need to put it
> in a block-container where you can specify the overflow property. That's
> going to be more light-weight and faster than the SVG work-around.

thanks, that did the trick!

I had actually tried this before (you gave the same answer when this 
question had been asked earlier). But the overflow attribute had no 
effect on the block-container element, so I wasn't sure if it was really 
implemented. Now I have upgraded to FOP 0.95 and with this version it 
works fine.

-- Andreas


> 
> On 14.08.2008 21:51:45 Andreas Hartmann wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I need to clip the content of table cells. IIUC overflow="hidden" is not 
>> supported yet. From my naïve point of view I'd assume it shouldn't be 
>> too hard to implement this - is there a special reason for the lack of 
>> this feature?
>>
>> ATM I'm using an inline SVG as workaround, but this has a massive impact 
>> on the processing time. Is there a more elegant workaround? I wouldn't 
>> like to resort to hard-coding a string length limit if I can avoid it …
>>
>> Thanks a lot in advance!
>>
>> -- Andreas
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Andreas Hartmann, CTO
>> BeCompany GmbH
>> http://www.becompany.ch
>> Tel.: +41 (0) 43 818 57 01
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Jeremias Maerki


-- 
Andreas Hartmann, CTO
BeCompany GmbH
http://www.becompany.ch
Tel.: +41 (0) 43 818 57 01


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