clipping text to a certain width

Is there anyway to clip text to a specified width?
What I'm looking for is a way to take long text that doesn't wrap in a table (text without spaces, like email address) and have the table clip it to show only what will fit in the cell.

I was thinking of having a DIV in the cell like so...
<TD width="30%" >
<DIV style="overflow:hidden">blah blah some long text</DIV>
</TD>

This seems kinda nasty to have in all the table cells, so I'm wondering if someone has a better idea

well, that didn't work... Any suggestions? I can't clip the text using jsp/java code since its the browser that determines the width of the table. Is there any fancy javascript function to clip text to a specified pixel width? See the sample bmp which illustrates the problem. The third row text does not wrap and causes the table cell to expand beyond its specified width

You need to fix the format of the table:

<table style="table-layout:fixed">

Then <td style="overflow:hidden"> should do the trick, though I think when table layout is fixed that the overflow default to hidden. As long as the columns have a width defined in pixels or percentages it should work.

wonderful!!! That works perfectly. Thanx