create dynamic columns

[cornelio]

Any one knows how to display sentence in 3 colums in coldfusion .

Thank you!

[zoeski80]

Use a TABLE and put the sentences into their own TD cells?

[cornelio]

what i want is divide my sentence in 3 columns dynamically... example : i have
a sentence let say more than 10 paragrah place in a variable and i want to
display this in 3 columns. -- i can divide the sentence by using
len(mySentence)/number of rows, but my problem is i cut the last work not
correcly. This is a testing ng This is a testing This is a testing
This is a testing This is a testing This This is a testing This is a
testing is a testing This is a This is a testing This is a testi
testing This is a testing This is a testing look at the last word in first
column and the continuation in second column. Thanks!

[zoeski80]

Hi Conelio

I don't fully understand what you're doing, your sample didn't have distinct
columns shown.

Have attached some code, hope it helps.

- Zoe

<cfset thisSentence = "This is a test sentence 1. This is a test sentence 2.
This is a test sentence 3. This is a test sentence 4. This is a test sentence
5. This is a test sentence 6. This is a test sentence 7. This is a test
sentence 8. This is a test sentence 9. This is a test sentence 10. This is a
test sentence 11.">
<CFSET numberOfColumns = 3>


<!--- if you want to have the same number of words in each column --->
<CFSET numberWordsInSentence = ListLen(thisSentence, " ")>
<CFSET numberWordsPerColumn = ceiling(numberWordsInSentence / numberOfColumns)>

<CFOUTPUT>
<TABLE BORDER=1>
<TR>
<CFLOOP FROM="1" TO="#numberOfColumns#" INDEX="ColumnNumber">
<CFSET wordsToAdd = (ColumnNumber - 1) * numberWordsPerColumn>
<TD>
<CFLOOP FROM="1" TO="#numberWordsPerColumn#" INDEX="this">
<CFSET thisWord = wordsToAdd + this>
<CFIF ListLen(thisSentence, " ") GTE thisWord>
#ListGetAt(thisSentence, thisWord, " ")#
</CFIF>
</CFLOOP>
</TD>
</CFLOOP>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</CFOUTPUT>


<BR><BR><BR><BR>

<!--- if you want to keep whole sentences together --->
<CFSET sentenceSeparator = ".">
<CFSET numberWordsInSentence = ListLen(thisSentence, sentenceSeparator)>
<CFSET numberWordsPerColumn = ceiling(numberWordsInSentence / numberOfColumns)>

<CFOUTPUT>
<TABLE BORDER=1>
<TR>
<CFLOOP FROM="1" TO="#numberOfColumns#" INDEX="ColumnNumber">
<CFSET wordsToAdd = (ColumnNumber - 1) * numberWordsPerColumn>
<TD>
<CFLOOP FROM="1" TO="#numberWordsPerColumn#" INDEX="this">
<CFSET thisWord = wordsToAdd + this>
<CFIF ListLen(thisSentence, sentenceSeparator) GTE thisWord>
#ListGetAt(thisSentence, thisWord, sentenceSeparator)##sentenceSeparator#
</CFIF>
</CFLOOP>
</TD>
</CFLOOP>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</CFOUTPUT>


<BR><BR><BR><BR>


<!--- if you want to have the same number of CHARACTERS in each column --->
<CFSET numberCharactersPerColumn = ceiling(Len(thisSentence) /
numberOfColumns)>

<CFOUTPUT>
<TABLE BORDER=1>
<TR>
<CFLOOP FROM="1" TO="#numberOfColumns#" INDEX="ColumnNumber">
<CFSET thisStart = (ColumnNumber - 1) * numberCharactersPerColumn + 1>
<TD>
<CFIF Len(thisSentence) GTE thisWord>
#Mid(thisSentence, thisStart, numberCharactersPerColumn)#
</CFIF>
</TD>
</CFLOOP>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</CFOUTPUT>