[wp-testers] Media Library scrolling

[Steve]

Ok, this is probably pretty sketchy, but what about making the columns
horizontally scrollable? I hate having horizontal scroll bars, but if that's
what it takes.... it's not like people can't make their filenames shorter if
they hate it. Just a thought.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Andy Skelton <skeltoac at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Mr. Awesome
> <theone.andonly.mr.awesome at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  I am STILL having this issue, anyone out there that could lend a hand
> >  maybe? I don't have these problem images on my localhost.. only my VB
> >  domain site... so I can't really TEST things, to look for the
> >  problems... =(  All I know, is, it must be LONG names titles of media
> >  files that's causing the scrolling... OR, maybe just the padding /
> >  margins of the table cells...
>
> The problem is that tables automatically expand to fit non-wrapping
> lines. There are a few possible solutions:
>
> Restrict the width of cells in that column to a fixed or percentage
> width, hiding overflow.
>  con: hidden information
>  con: awkward to resize when the rest of the cols are unrestrained
>
> Automatically break filenames every n characters to line wrap on display.
>  con: altered information
>
> Don't display past character n.
>  can: missing information
>
> Being an information junkie, I don't like any of these solutions. If
> there is a consensus or a better idea I'll try to make that work.
>
> Andy
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