Text trimming with elipsis

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Hi, I am trying to add an elipsis for some text inside a div using css.

for example,

<div style="???????">

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

</div>

What I want is for the end result to look like: WWWWWW...

Or at least just cut off without the ....

The div is inside a td which stretches out when the text is too long, and making the td or div a fixed width is not an option.

How can I do this?

Thanks!

Posted 8-Jul-10 14:17pm

_iobuf

Updated 8-Jul-10 14:21pm

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Prosanta Kundu online · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-08T18:47:00

Solution 1

Add CSS Class

CSS

.ellipsis span {
  white-space:nowrap;
   text-overflow:ellipsis; /* for internet explorer */
   overflow:hidden;
   width:190px;
   display:block;
}
html>body .ellipsis {
   clear:both;
}
html>body .ellipsis span:after {
   content: "...";
}
html>body .ellipsis span {
   max-width:180px;
   width:auto !important;
   float:left;
}

And HTML is

XML

<div class="ellipsis">
     <span>wwwwwwwwwwgfdgdfgdfgdfgfdgdfgdfgxgsdgsdfgdfgfdgdfgdfgdfgdfgdfg</span>
</div>

Posted 8-Jul-10 18:47pm

Prosanta Kundu online

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_iobuf 9-Jul-10 13:10pm

Reason for my vote of 5
Thank you! Worked great!

_iobuf 9-Jul-10 13:13pm

Is there any way to remove the ... if the text is shorter than the max width?

_iobuf 9-Jul-10 13:15pm

Nevermind... I just removed the content: "..."; property and the browser handled the rest.