From adc118ed06d332d88cb37152ced7d4709a4f5e19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ken Coar Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:10:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add the long-awaited IndexOptions DescriptionWidth keyword. It was waiting for a way to avoid breaking HTML tags, but that's already been done as much as possible -- we can't do anything about breaking HTML elements without putting a full parser in. PR: 2324 git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@84210 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- docs/manual/mod/mod_autoindex.html | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_autoindex.html b/docs/manual/mod/mod_autoindex.html index fde790b571..b39ed5c0f8 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_autoindex.html +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_autoindex.html @@ -215,6 +215,17 @@ added if the directory is covered by an IndexOptions SuppressSize, and 19 bytes may be added if IndexOptions SuppressLastModified is in effect. The widest this column can be is therefore 49 bytes. +
+As of Apache 1.3.10, the +DescriptionWidth +IndexOptions keyword allows you to adjust this width +to any arbitrary size. +
+Caution: Descriptive text defined with AddDescription +may contain HTML markup, such as tags and character entities. If the +width of the description column should happen to truncate a tagged +element (such as cutting off the end of a bolded phrase), the results +may affect the rest of the directory listing.

@@ -545,13 +556,23 @@ IndexIgnore README .htaccess *~ REL="Help" >Compatibility: '+/-' syntax and merging of multiple IndexOptions directives is only available with - Apache 1.3.3 and later; the FoldersFirst option is only + Apache 1.3.3 and later; the FoldersFirst and + DescriptionWidth options are only available with Apache 1.3.10 and later

The IndexOptions directive specifies the behavior of the directory indexing. Option can be one of

+
DescriptionWidth=[n | *] + (Apache 1.3.10 and later) +
+The DescriptionWidth keyword allows you to specify the +width of the description column in characters. If the keyword value +is '*', then the column is automatically sized to the +length of the longest filename in the display. +See the section on AddDescription +for dangers inherent in truncating descriptions.
FancyIndexing
This turns on fancy indexing of directories. -- 2.40.0