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Overflow, ellipsis

IE allows to show text that exceeds the container's boundaries as
unfinished (by adding ellipsis).

e.g.:
<div style="text-overflow:ellipsis;overflow:hidden;width:20px">some
long text</div>
will be shown as
some lon...

Is there any way to do the same in Firefox by means of ellipsis?

May 31 '06 #1
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marss wrote:
IE allows to show text that exceeds the container's boundaries as
unfinished (by adding ellipsis).

e.g.:
<div style="text-overflow:ellipsis;overflow:hidden;width:20px">some
long text</div>
will be shown as
some lon...
That is an IE invention, it is not part of the W3C CSS 2 specification;

<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visufx.html#propdef-overflow>

Is there any way to do the same in Firefox by means of ellipsis?


Some script-based solutions have been discussed in the past based on
whether scroll bars are displayed or not - I don't think they are a good
idea. Search the archives at:

news:comp.lang.javascript
You may be able to use a CSS hack to make a style rule visible to IE
only to set overflow to 'ellipsis' and auto (or whatever) for other
browsers.
--
Rob
May 31 '06 #2

RobG wrote:

Some script-based solutions have been discussed in the past based on
whether scroll bars are displayed or not - I don't think they are a good
idea. Search the archives at:

news:comp.lang.javascript
You may be able to use a CSS hack to make a style rule visible to IE
only to set overflow to 'ellipsis' and auto (or whatever) for other
browsers.


Thanks a lot, RobG

May 31 '06 #3

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