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Danyella Axani
Courses Plus Student 1,435 Pointstext-overflow is a property??
Whenever I type in text-overflow as a property it doesn't hi-light... so I know its not working. I put in just 'overflow' for a property, this hi-lights it but will not change anything on the page. maybe I have my elements wrong? i'm trying to select the class link in the paragraph, so shouldn't it be: p.link {text-overflow:ellipsis;}
uggg!! I don't understand why its not working!!!
4 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 PointsProbably some syntax highlighting libraries haven't updated to the latest CSS3 spec. Interestingly enough text-overflow is on the list of Features at risk
Rich Yates
3,576 PointsAre you using Sublime text? If so, are other attributes highlighting? If not then make sure you saved the CSS file as .css and not .txt or whatever
Jose Morales-Mendizabal
19,175 Pointstry setting "overflow:hidden;" before your text-overflow rule.
Julie (Howard) Lewis
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 25,921 PointsYou've got the text-overflow right! For some reason some text editors aren't color-responsive to "text-overflow". But don't be alarmed... it should work!
Double check your selector though... remember that when you have a class named in your HTML, you don't need to specify the HTML element (in the example, the p) in the CSS, you only need to name the class (in this case, the "link" class).
Jose has an excellent point for when you get to writing your own code... generally with the text-overflow property, you want to set a width for the container you're working in and set the overflow to "hidden" so it stays inside the box you want, then add the text-overflow setting to provide the ellipsis. However, for the purposes of this code challenge, the overflow and width values are already set for you, you just need to provide the ellipsis.