Using lists in Sharepoint - fixing the width of columns

[steinooo]

Hi,

I would like to create a list with fixed width colums, but dont want to have to modify Schema.XML files etc to risk messing up my other lists, do you think its possible to purchase a web part of a list which has pre-defined or even user-defined fixed widths for the fields in a list?

thanks.

 

[steinooo]

No I havn't, but thanks for the tip - does it work with 2003 do you know? I should have mentioned the version in the 1st post sorry.

 

[steinooo]

Have you got access to SharePoint Designer?

If so, you can adjust the pixels manually

Hi Dark,

i've downloaded Sharepoint designer but can't for the life of me figure out how to adjust the column widths as you suggest, could you point me in the right direction please?

 

[steinooo]

what exactly is it your trying to do ?

Trying to make it so that if a user enters loads of text in one field that the list web part won't expand to the right, which can get massive and cause a scroll bar to appear in your browser. I want to fix the width of some columns.

you can customize a view of a list and then limit the column sizes within that?

I looked at that but couldnt see how?

you can create a dataformwebpart and style that ?

not sure what that is, not sure if i have that webpart installed? I have a content editor web part and a data view web part?

hope that helps explain a bit more? cheers for the help so far.

 

[steinooo]

goto lists and select your list.

open up the view you want to edit

switch to code view and you should have a ListViewXml tag edit the td elements within this.

I think i'm being thich here but I can't understand how to do this stage.

^^ thats where i'm at....