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CSS

Posted by Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points

Help With CSS Text Overflow

Hi Guys,

I have just watched one of the css videos on text-overflow and using the

text-overflow: ellipsis;

I am having problems getting it to work. I have read the spec:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/text-overflow

and set up a codepen:

http://codepen.io/garethredfern/pen/729680cab4e63d9a373b14a0d70476da

Could anyone help?

3 Answers

Hardik Dangar
Hardik Dangar
Courses Plus Student 856 Points

Support for text-overflow: ellipsis requires white-space: nowrap this makes it to a single line, and it will not work for multiple lines.

I think you have to do this via Javascript something like http://www.jeremymartin.name/projects.php?project=jTruncate

One solution via pure css will require lot of work, http://www.mobify.com/dev/multiline-ellipsis-in-pure-css

Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points
Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points

Ahh right thanks Hardik, I thought it looked too good to be true as I hadn't come across it before. I am using multiline text so that would be my issue.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

@Gareth -

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are going for but there's also the CSS3 property word-wrap: break-word. It has good cross-browser support including IE6.

Check out the codepen