The text-overflow property in CSS deals with situations where text is clipped when it overflows the element’s box. It can be clipped (i.e. cut off, hidden), display an ellipsis (‘…’, Unicode Range Value U+2026) or display an author-defined string (no current browser support for author-defined strings).
.ellipsis {
text-overflow: ellipsis;
/* Required for text-overflow to do anything */
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}Note that text-overflow only occurs when the container’s overflow property has the value hidden, scroll or auto and white-space: nowrap;.
Text overflow can only happen on block or inline-block level elements, because the element needs to have a width in order to be overflow-ed. The overflow happens in the direction as determined by the direction property or related attributes.
The following demo displays the behavior of the text-overflow property including all the possible values. Browser support varies!
Setting overflow to scroll or auto will display scrollbars to reveal the additional text, while hidden will not. The hidden text can be selected by selecting the ellipses.
Old Stuff
An old version of the spec says you could use an URL to an image for the ellipsis, but it looks as if that was dropped.
There is a two-value syntax, e.g. text-overflow: ellipsis ellipsis;, that would control the overflow on the left and right sides of the same container. I’m not sure how that would be possible to achieve. Perhaps centered text in a too-small container? The new spec says this, as well as defining a string, is “at risk.”
I’m not sure where ellipsis-word came from. It’s not in the spec or in any other documentation other than on WebPlatform.org.
The text-overflow property used to be shorthand for the combination of text-overflow-mode and text-overflow-ellipsis, but not anymore and those separate properties don’t exist.
Related Properties
Other Resources
- W3C Candidate Recommendation Spec
- MDN Docs
- Web Platform Docs
- Caniuse.com
- CSS-Tricks Line Clampin’
- Manage Multi-Line Ellipsis in Pure CSS
- Truncate String with Ellipsis
Browser Support
| Chrome | Safari | Firefox | Opera | IE | Android | iOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25+ | 5.1+ | 19+ | 12.1+ | IE8+ | 2.1+ | 3.2+ |
I found this bug in my blog. I created this jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/GnKFM/
Looking online I found this official thread. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=133700 – Issue 133700: text-overflow:ellipsis does not handle inline-block subelements correctly. Did you know? Do you know a trick to solve it?
thanks
I use this code to avoid text-overflow
.open > .dropdown-menu {overflow: auto;
display: block;
Text-overflow:ellipsis;
}
but still unable to find resule in [xyz…]
any suggestion
add this line to it:
white-space: nowrap;
If you have a long string without any white space, text-overflow then works with
white-space: normal;too (with default white space)There is a problem with ie9 rendering when you use a custom glyph as a font-family property plus the ellipsis effect. Not sure what the solution is yet.
text-overflow: ‘… more’;
Thanks a lot, work great (firefox testing right now) !
I’ve a problem about text-overflow , I use this code to display the result ” vwxy… ”
{
white-space:nowrap;
overflow:hidden;
text-overflow:ellipsis;
}
but the result not like this “vwxy…”
You should define width for that box, and width should be less than text length.
you can check this -> Your text to link here…
Does the clipping work with scroll bars.
Looks like text-overflow: ellipsis is ignored whenever text-align: right is set.
text-overflow doesn’t work in default browser in Lenovo Tablet S5000. I already use
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space:nowrap;
overflow:hidden;
All Browser is OK with above code.
But it doesn’t work in lenovo Tablet .How to fix it?
Stop buying Lenovo tablets.
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but any explanation why or how min-width is resolving the problem?
at least tell me- how do you discover that setting min-width solve the problem?