[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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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr






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