How to limit maximum characters of title, description in Joomla 1.5 table? And how

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Asked: June 16, 20262026-06-16T00:40:44+00:00 2026-06-16T00:40:44+00:00

How to limit maximum characters of title, description in Joomla 1.5 table?

And how to make if so long, not write all text in table, but write … or write in other Line.

I mean if title is like:

"titleblablablaTITLEblablaTITLEtitle"

I want that showed:

"titlebl..."

or

"titleblabl
ablaTITLE
blablaTITL
Etitle"

(Pavadinimas-title) / (Aprasymas-description)

Thay are too long table so large, someone could help me? Thank you.

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-16T00:40:44+00:00

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This CSS should do it for you in browsers that support the word-break property:

td, th {
    word-break: break-all
}

If you’re interested in a PHP solution, there is a wordwrap() function in the standard library: http://php.net/manual/en/function.wordwrap.php

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