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Re: Long form legends

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From: ben morrison
Date: Jun 10, 2005 3:25PM

> Cause I never thought of that. :) (duh)
>
> On a Mac:
> Legends wrap automatically in these browsers:
> Opera, Safari, Explorer
>
> They don't in these browsers:
> Netscape, Mozilla, FireFox
>
>
> On a PC:
> They don't in these browsers:
> Netscape, Mozilla, FireFox, IE
>
> I know that IE/PC responds to styling the width of the legend though.


Here is a list of css hacks that maybe of use:

http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/

I should have added a class to the br as well:

<br class="legendBreak">

.legendBreak {
display:none;
}