

Here’s the snippet taken from ellipsis.js:Įvent. The CSS rule for the ellpisis class is injected into your HTML document via document.write. you have to directly apply a width on ellipsised elements – yuck). Yeah, I actually decided to not use IEs ellipsis feature, even if I’m on IE – it is pretty nasty to work with (e.g. It’s like setting its width to some large value, except you get around the Expanding Box bug of Internet Explorer 6. The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is. An ellipsis element will have a negative margin of -10000px. Use text-ellipsis to truncate overflowing text with an ellipsis ( ) if needed. In this case, the DIV element has the attribute data-lines'2'. Finally, add the 'data-lines' attribute to the target text container.

Then initialize the plugin and we're ready to go. The graceful degradtion is done via a CSS trick. To use this plugin, first you need to include the main JavaScript file text-overflow-ellipsis.js after jQuery library as this: 2. You can also set both values which then means they determine the overflow visual hint at the end and the hint. If the value is defined as a URI it displays the image behind the URL. Here’s a demo and here’s the script – MIT-style licensed and tested on IE 6+7, FF 2, Safari 2, Opera 9. The value is defined either as a string like the default UTF-8 character ‘U+2026’ or a URI and represents the ellipsis of text-overflow-mode property. Jep, I’m using Prototype – but it should be pretty trivial to port it to other JavaScript libraries. It’s as simple asĪll you have to do in advance is to include ellipsis.js and prototype.js. My solution allows you to simply add a class to an HTML element to make it text-overflow ellipsis. It even degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled. With some JavaScript hacking however you can have something similar to IE ellipsis on all browsers. Unfortunately text-overflow:ellipsis is no standard and not supported by Firefox, Opera, etc. I think the better way to detect it is anycodings_javascript use getClientRects(), it seems each rect anycodings_javascript has the same height, so we can caculate anycodings_javascript lines number with the number of anycodings_javascript different top value.Internet Explorer comes with a nice CSS feature for truncating text by appending three little dots: text-overflow:ellipsis. Then use it to find elements $truncated_elements = $('.my-selector:truncated') If so, you know it's going to anycodings_javascript have been truncated.įor example, using jQuery: var $element = $('#element-to-test') The idea is that you clone the element, anycodings_javascript remove any bounding width, and test if anycodings_javascript the cloned element is wider than the anycodings_javascript original. In our example below, besides the display property, we set the text-overflow to 'ellipsis', use the 'nowrap' value of the white-space property, set the overflow to 'hidden'. Display ellipsis in multi-line text Here is implemented according to the application scenario 1) Webkit browser or mobi.

A single line of text overflows to show the css writing of the ellipsis 2. I'm anycodings_javascript not the biggest fan of solutions like anycodings_javascript this, but it certainly produces the anycodings_javascript correct result time and time again. To make an ellipsis work on a table cell, you can use the CSS display property set to its 'block' or 'inline-block' value. The text overflow of the webpage shows the ellipsis. It can be clipped, display an ellipsis (.), or display a custom string. Once upon a time I needed to do this, anycodings_javascript and the only cross-browser reliable anycodings_javascript solution I came across was hack job. The text-overflow property specifies how overflowed content that is not displayed should be signaled to the user.
