As ellipses may be rendered many times on a single page, using this property can significantly speed up performance. This property offers an efficient alternative to building ellipses in Dynamic HTML (DHTML). When selected, the ellipses will disappear and be replaced by the text to the extent of the layout area. By default, only the spacing between characters is adjusted, but the glyph size can also be. The user agent will ensure that the text does not extend farther than that distance, using the method or methods specified by the lengthAdjust attribute.
The hidden text can be selected by selecting the ellipses. The textLength attribute, available on SVGSetting overflow to scroll or auto will also work, but will show scrollbars. The best choice is to set overflow to hidden. This property on the element must be set to something other than visible, the default, in order for ellipses to be rendered. If there is no breaking opportunity (for example, the width is narrow or there is a long word that does not break well), then overflow may occur without nowrap being applied. To force overflow to occur and ellipses to be applied, the author must apply the nowrap value to the white-space property on the element, or wrap the content in a tag. Inline overflow occurs when the text in a line overflows the available width without a breaking opportunity.
This property only applies to text overflow in the inline direction (horizontal, in normal Western text). This is an example text showing nothing interesting but the truncated content via text-overflow shorthand property.
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The following example shows how to use ellipsis, ellipsis-word and clip values for the text-overflow property. Simply clips the content and does not display ellipsis for text-overflow.Įllipsis Display ellipsis (…) for text overflow after the last letter that entirely fits into a line.Įllipsis-word Display ellipsis (…) for text overflow after the last word that entirely fits into a line. It covers the two long-hand properties text-overflow-mode and text-overflow-ellipsis Overview table Initial value not defined for shorthand properties Applies to block-level and inline-block elements It can be clipped, display an ellipsis ('…’, U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS) or a Web author-defined string. The text-overflow shorthand CSS property determines how overflowed content that is not displayed is signaled to the users.