[pmwiki-users] Displaying page name with a limited number of characters?
christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 11:57:07 CST 2006
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I often have the name of the current page in the sidebar, e.g. as
>
> * [[Edit {$Name} -> {$Name}?action=edit]]
>
> This can however cause a problem when the name of the page is really
> long... I tried making an example here
>
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/ReallyReallyReallyLongPageName-noItIsReallyExtremelyLong
>
> Unfortunately the effect I was looking for, namely that the sidebar
> becomes much wider, didn't happen.
I got a tip off-list that the problem do appear when there is no
hyphen/dash in the name... Look at the sidebar in this page:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/ReallyReallyReallyLongPageNamenoItIsReallyExtremelyLong
/Christian
>
> Anyway, what do you think about the possibility of limiting the length of
> the name that is shown, in effect something like:
>
> {$Name...}
>
> resulting in
>
> ReallyReallyReallyLong...
>
> Another solution would be to somehow limit the width only when it's shown
> in the sidebar (or not show the name there).
>
> /Christian
>
> PS. For some reason, the first time I just edited a page a pmwiki.org
> today, the name of the page showed up in the author field... see the
> history of this page
>
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/ReallyReallyReallyLongPageName?action=diff
>
>
>
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