mvc list view overflowing

Question

mvc4 i have a  list like serial number column , content column and date column ,

 

while the content is more then 500 words it's overflowing the row ., i wanna show that first little words in a row don't wanna over flow how can i do it ???

 

@foreach (var msg in Model)
{
<tr>
<td>@sn</td>
<td>@Html.DisplayFor(a => msg.content)</td>
<td>@Html.DisplayFor(a=>msg.date)</td>
</tr>
sn++;
}