nowrap with text row

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philosophology

Hi,
I am writing this asp page that in it I am populating a datasheet.
There is a cell with a lot of data in it and I want to only show 3
lines of it and after that not shown. kind of like nowrap where
everything after the end of the cell is not shown or spilled to the
next column but I want to tell it how many rows of text to show and
then no wrap. Can I do this? my code is:

tr
td valign="top" nowrapblah blah blah blah/td
/tr

is there a way that I can tell it how many lines to show and then
unwrap?
I want it to show it like this:

blah
blah
blah blah
------^ is not shown (or in the spilled in the next column)

thanx
 
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