In CSS Level 3, the specification allows you to use a custom string the same way the ellipses (or three points) are used in this example. an overflow hidden right-to-left ( direction:rtl) block clips inline content on the left side, thus would place a text-overflow ellipsis on the left to represent that clipped content. The side of the line that the ellipsis is placed depends on the direction of the block. In browsers that don’t support the ellipsis character and cannot display it, three dots “…” are displayed instead. For example, instead of clipping the text at the overflow point, you can tell the browser to add a horizontal ellipsis character (U+2026) to represent the clipped content.
Now, using text-overflow, you can specify how to signal or tell the user that some text overflows the element.
The default (initial) value of text-overflow is clip. This is the default way overflowed text is handled.
When the overflow is set to be hidden, the text is clipped, and a character may be only partially rendered, as you can see in the above example. Using overflow: hidden, the above element becomes: This can be done by setting the overflow property of the element to hidden, or any value other than visible. In order for text-overflow to work, you need to clip the text that overflows its container. So, without any additional styles, the text-overflow property has no effect on the element. For example:Īs you can see, the text overflows its container but does not get clipped out or hidden. due to white-space: nowrap) or a single word is too long to fit. Text may overflow when it is prevented from wrapping (e.g. Text can overflow a block container only in its inline progression direction. That is, it allows you to specify what to display at the points where the text overflows the container. Here’s a snippet with your code, with a display:inline-block added, to show how close you were.The text-overflow property determines how to handle inline text that overflows its block container by specifying how overflowed text is signaled to the user.
I’d suggest display:inline-block, since this will have the minimum collateral impact on your layout it works very much like the display:inline that it’s using currently as far as the layout is concerned, but feel free to experiment with the other points as well I’ve tried to give as much info as possible to help you understand how these things interact together a large part of understanding CSS is about understanding how various styles work together.
Set the element to float:left or float:right (probably the former, but again, either should have the same effect as far as the ellipsis is concerned). Set one of its container elements to display:block and give that element a fixed width or max-width. Set the element to display:inline-block or display:block (probably the former, but depends on your layout needs). You can fix this by doing one of the following: the default) it is ignoring it, and nothing else is constraining its width either. You do have a width setting, but because the element is set to display:inline (i.e. The reason you’re having problems here is because the width of your a element isn’t constrained. The element must have overflow:hidden and white-space:nowrap set. The element’s width must be constrained in px (pixels). Text-overflow:ellipsis only works when the following are true: