I don't know why this simple CSS isn't working...
.app a { height: 18px; width: 140px; padding: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; margin: 0 5px 0 5px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; color: #000; }<div class="app"> <a href="">Test Test Test Test Test Test</a> </div>Should cut off around the 4th "Test"
text-overflow:ellipsis; only works when the following are true:
px (pixels). Width in % (percentage) won't work.overflow:hidden and white-space:nowrap set.The reason you're having problems here is because the width of your a element isn't constrained. You do have a width setting, but because the element is set to display:inline (i.e. the default) it is ignoring it, and nothing else is constraining its width either.
You can fix this by doing one of the following:
display:inline-block or display:block (probably the former, but depends on your layout needs).display:block and give that element a fixed width or max-width.float:left or float:right (probably the former, but again, either should have the same effect as far as the ellipsis is concerned).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.
Here's a snippet with your code, with a display:inline-block added, to show how close you were.
.app a { height: 18px; width: 140px; padding: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; display: inline-block; margin: 0 5px 0 5px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; color: #000; }<div class="app"> <a href="">Test Test Test Test Test Test</a> </div>Useful references:
white-space: nowrap is required though.
width at all. All you need to do is set a white-space: nowrap; and it works just fine.The accepted answer is awesome. However, you can still use % width and attain text-overflow: ellipsis. The solution is simple:
display: inline-block; /* for inline elements e.g. span, strong, em etc */ text-overflow: ellipsis; width: calc(80%); /* The trick is here! */ It seems whenever you use calc, the final value is rendered in absolute pixels, which consequentially converts 80% to something like 800px for a 1000px-width container. Therefore, instead of using width: [YOUR PERCENT]%, use width: calc([YOUR PERCENT]%).
overflow: hidden; is also needed
width: calc(100% - 20px); but no overflow is created.
100%, is possible. Also, please don't forget to add width in the parent component before applying this solution.
container-type: inline-size instead of width, which is supported by all major browser.
So if you reach this question because you're having trouble trying to get the ellipsis working inside a display: flex container, try adding min-width: 0 to the outmost container that's overflowing its parent even though you already set a overflow: hidden to it and see how that works for you.
More details and a working example on this codepen by aj-foster. Totally did the trick in my case.
position: sticky element within a display: flex container.
display set to grid on body. To fix this I had to set min-length: 0; on grid items (in my case children of body)
the outmost container that's overflowing. I had to add min-width:0 to the top 2 containers on different levels. I spent 6 hours to realize it.
I have been having this problem and I wanted a solution that could easily work with dynamic widths. The solution use css grid. This is how the code looks like:
.parent { display: grid; grid-template-columns: auto 1fr; } .dynamic-width-child { white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden; } .fixed-width-child { white-space: nowrap; }<div class="parent"> <div class="dynamic-width-child"> iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii asdfhlhlafh;lshd;flhsd;lhfaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa </div> <div class="fixed-width-child">Why?-Zed</div> </div>
dynamic-with-child on all of them
grid-template-columns might need to be replaced with grid-template-rows based on requirement. Save that one change, this is the only answer that worked without any hitches or weird workarounds.
text-overflow: ellipsis when the parent container is a flex and the text contains just a single word (like with filenames) it won't work. Surprisingly, it instantly works if we change the container to grid.I faced the same issue and it seems like none of the solution above works for Safari. For non-safari browser, this works just fine:
display: block; /* or in-line block according to your requirement */ overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; For Safari, this is the one that works for me. Note that the media query to check if the browser is Safari might change over time, so just tinker with the media query if it doesn't work for you. With line-clamp property, it would also be possible to have multiple lines in the web with ellipsis, see here.
// Media-query for Safari-only browser. @media not all and (min-resolution: 0.001dpcm) { @media { -webkit-line-clamp: 1; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; display: -webkit-box; white-space: normal; } } 
display: block did the trick for me (using Chrome), <a> tags are by default inline.Include the four lines written after the info for ellipsis to work
.app a { color: #fff; font: bold 15px/18px Arial; height: 18px; margin: 0 5px 0 5px; padding: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 140px; /* Note: The Below 4 Lines are necessary for ellipsis to work. */ display: block;/* Change it as per your requirement. */ overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; } 
display: block; will break it so you need to use max-width: 100px;. Note that width will not work. No idea why not.Just add in the div containing that paragraph
white-space: nowrap width: 50px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; border: 1px solid #000000; Add display: block; or display: inline-block; to your #User_Apps_Content .DLD_App a
text-overflow: ellipsis; not text-overflow: "...";Also make sure word-wrap is set to normal for IE10 and below.
The standards referenced below define this property's behavior as being dependent on the setting of the "text-wrap" property. However, wordWrap settings are always effective in Windows Internet Explorer because Internet Explorer does not support the "text-wrap" property.
Hence in my case, word-wrap was set to break-word (inherited or by default?) causing text-overflow to work in FF and Chrome, but not in IE.
anchor,span... tags are inline elements by default, In case of inline elements width property doesn't works. So you have to convert your element to either inline-block or block level elements
In My Case the display: flex; was preventing it from working
<p> <icon/> text </p> p { display: flex; // prevent it from working overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; } <p> <icon/> <span> text </span> </p> p { display: flex; // prevent it from working } span { overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; } MUST contain
text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; MUST NOT contain
display: inline SHOULD contain
position: sticky In bootstrap 4, you can add a .text-truncate class to truncate the text with an ellipsis.
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <!-- Inline level --> <span class="d-inline-block text-truncate" style="max-width: 250px;"> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. </span>You can do it using this:
p { display: block; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; } Please also ensure, that the immediate enclosing element has a fixed width, and the span where you want to apply ellipsis , has a display:block
For me I wasn't setting it inside the inner div I was setting it in outer div so even though I had nowrap, overflow:hidden, and a set width it wasn't working. The code looked like:
<div className="outer"> <ToolTip> <div className="inner"> long content needing to be cut </div> </ToolTip> </div> As stated in the other answers:
overflow:hidden and white-space:nowrap set.But this can be bypassed using the -webkit-line-clamp property along with the text-overflow to achieve ellipsis that are not bound to fixed width.
--line-clamp: 1; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-line-clamp: var(--line-clamp); -webkit-box-orient: vertical; Update the --line-clamp variable in the above snippet to use it for multi-line ellipsis.
In responsive cases set max-width to parent element.
.wrapper { background-color: teal; padding: 40px 160px; } .container { padding: 20px 10px; background-color: white } .overflow-parent { max-width: 100px; } .overflow-content { width: 100%; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; }<div class="wrapper"> <div class="container"> <div class="overflow-parent"> <div class="overflow-content" title="some looooooooooong ellipsed text"> some looooooooooong ellipsed text </div> </div> </div> </div>Or even without max-width:
.wrapper { background-color: teal; padding: 40px 260px; } .container { padding: 20px 10px; background-color: white } .overflow-content { width: 100%; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; }<div class="wrapper"> <div class="container"> <div class="overflow-content" title="some looooooooooong ellipsed text"> some looooooooooong ellipsed text </div> </div> </div>You just add one line css:
.app a { display: inline-block; } None of the above solutions worked for me, particularly regarding the width. Since I can’t set a fixed width and need it to adapt based on the parent element, I used container queries with max-width: 100cqi;, which adjusts to 100% of the parent container width.
There’s no need to set a width on .container; if it’s within a grid, the grid defines the width automatically, making it fluid rather than fixed. My solution below ensures that clipped text won’t overflow the parent but will instead display an ellipsis as expected.
div.container { container: container / inline-size; width: min(10rem, 100%); /* demo only */ outline: 2px dotted blue /* demo only */ } div.app a { display: inline-block; text-overflow: ellipsis; max-width: 100cqi; white-space: nowrap; overflow: clip; background: red /* demo only */ }<div class="container"> <div class="app"> <a href="#">Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5 Test6</a> <a href="#">Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4</a> <a href="#">Test1 Test2</a> </div> </div>I had to make some long descriptions ellipse(take only one lane) while being responsive, so my solution was to let the text wrap(instead of white-space: nowrap) and instead of fixed width I added fixed height:
span { display: inline-block; line-height: 1rem; height: 1rem; overflow: hidden; // OPTIONAL LINES width: 75%; background: green; // white-space: normal; default }<span> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Commodi quia quod reprehenderit saepe sit. Animi deleniti distinctio dolorum iste molestias reiciendis saepe. Ea eius ex, ipsam iusto laudantium natus obcaecati quas rem repellat temporibus! A alias at, atque deserunt dignissimos dolor earum, eligendi eveniet exercitationem natus non, odit sint sit tempore voluptate. Commodi culpa ex facere id minima nihil nulla omnis praesentium quasi quia quibusdam recusandae repellat sequi ullam, voluptates. Aliquam commodi debitis delectus magnam nulla, omnis sequi sint unde voluptas voluptatum. Adipisci aliquam deserunt dolor enim facilis libero, maxime molestias, nemo neque non nostrum placeat reprehenderit, rerum ullam vel? A atque autem consectetur cum, doloremque doloribus fugiat hic id iste nemo nesciunt officia quaerat quibusdam quidem quisquam similique sit tempora vel. Accusamus aspernatur at au </span>If you're trying to add text ellipsis inside a flex element. Make sure either you pass width to the child element or simply add max-width: 0
Write these in your css rule.
display: block; /* or in-line block according to your requirement */ overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; 
You can also add float:left; inside this selector:
#User_Apps_Content .DLD_App a 