Using it is probably a pretty good practice when truncating text so the content doesn’t come to an abrupt, awkward end. In this case the engine will render just two lines of text replacing the rest by.
Dolphin browser text overflow ellipsis full#
When the user hovers over the long text, we can display the full content in a tooltip.īelow CSS snippet will instruct the browser to hide the overflow text and display with ellipsis. An ellipsis () signifies that text has been truncated and continues longer than what it displayed. overflow-y:hidden text-overflow:ellipsis max-height:2.6em // or just fixed height. Using CSS, we can set the max width of the table cells, hide overflow and show ellipsis at the end of the overflowing text. A number indicates that browser supports the feature at that version and up. Sometimes, long text causes the height of the table cells to increase, resulting in an unaesthetic UI. For text-overflow: This browser support data is from Caniuse, which has more detail. text-overflow: ellipsis only works with display: block and display: inline-block containers.
Dolphin browser text overflow ellipsis code#
View this code in my JavaScript Demos project on GitHub. Run this demo in my JavaScript Demos project on GitHub.
In several apps I work on, we use angular material to display data in a table. As I've come to understand, in order for text-overflow and an ellipses to work within a CSS Flexbox container, the Flexbox container has to take on an overflow property that is not strictly isolated by its own separation of concerns. You make use of the containing div to make the others display: inline-block and then give the text div a width so the overflow can happen.
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