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1. sdwarcollege
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   I've been a feed digest user for a couple of years now, and I've got a nagging problem I'd like to try to figure out. If one of the websites I grab RSS feeds from has an item in the description such as "go check out this this website at "http://www.feeddigest.com/forums/forum.php?id=1&page#postform/id=1&page#postformid=1&page#postformid=1&page#postformid=1&page#postform" the long URL won't wrap to the next line of the description. Since I use my feed digest in my left column of a 3 column CSS website (with floating columns), that unwrapped line will artificially expand the left column, and just destroy my layout (in i.e. 6.).

   In the case where I know the culprit (long URL's in the description) is there a way to drop the description for just those posts (usually signaled by http:// in the description)?

   Posted 17 years ago #

2. admin
   Key Master

   Not really. It might be possible to add some sort of conditional tag, as was done with the < gsub > tag, but that would need to be implemented as new.

   That said, there might be some CSS technique that could be used to force breaks, or you could try our gsub tag if the URLs are predictable. so you could add breakable spaces into the URL someplace. Consider if the URLs always looked like this:

   http://xxxxxxxx/xxxxxx/xxxxx/yyy/xxxxxx

   Then you could wrap the %URL% in a gsub tag doing a "from" of "yyy" and a "to" of " yyy" (added a space). This would then cause it to break. Or perhaps just do somethng like a from of "&" to a " &" so that all URLs are broken up if they have lots of arguments.

   Posted 17 years ago #

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