I’ve never attempted this, but instead of linking to the text files directly, can you include the text files in an <iframe> and leverage that to apply sizing/styling information to the <iframe> content?
Something like:
<html>
<body>
<iframe src=“/path/to/file.txt”></iframe>
</body>
</html>
That structure, combined with some javascript tricks might get you where you need to be:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4612374/iframe-inherit-from-parent
Of course, if you’re already going that far, you’re not too far removed from just pulling the text file into a nicely formatted container via AJAX, and styling that container as needed, without the <iframe> hackery.
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On Oct 13, 2014, at 9:59, Matthew Sherman <matt.r.sherman_at_GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
> word wrap when it displays txt files? This is an odd question but one of
> my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
> reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
> repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell
> them how to turn on word wrap. Yes it is as crazy as it sounds. Any
> assistance is welcome.
>
> Matt Sherman
Received on Mon Oct 13 2014 - 16:26:12 EDT