How to keep div on one line and append ellipses - javascript

Is there a way in css to make sure that a div or class is only one line of text, and if it runs over, append ellipses on it? I know that you can set the div/class to a certain height and overflow:hidden, but it looks strange for what I'm trying to do.
In the picture below you see that the div on the right is larger than the one on the left. If I can make the name of the song one line with ellipses, they will both be the same height. Anyone know how to accomplish this? P.S. I want a better way than doing something like $song = substr(0, 10, $song) in php... something hopefully possible with CSS.

Set a width on the container.
Set white-space: nowrap.
Set text-overflow: ellipsis.
Hide the overflow*
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/jD99d/
.my-class-name {
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
width: 100px;
overflow: hidden;
}
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/text-overflow
* Note that "This CSS property doesn't force an overflow to occur; to do so and make text-overflow to be applied, the author must apply some additional properties on the element, like setting overflow to hidden."

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Shortening a link using HTML/JS/CSS

I am trying to change the design of the navigation on my site.
We have some products with really long names and I want to cut them short and maybe add (...) or something similar at the end.
So something like this should look like abcdefg... instead of abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
a{
width:50px;
overflow:hidden;
}
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
A JS solution is welcome.
I would also like to know why the width isn't being applied?
Use white-space combined with overflow & text-overflow. And don't forget to add display: inline-block to the a element, so you can apply width to it.
a {
display: inline-block;
width: 50px;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Anchors are inline elements by default and any width set on an anchor is ignored. Change the display to inline-block:
a {
width: 50px;
overflow: hidden;
display: inline-block;
}
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
As MDN states:
Inline elements are those which only occupy the space bounded by the
tags defining the element, instead of breaking the flow of the
content.
and...
You can change the visual presentation of an element using the CSS
display property. For example, by changing the value of display from
"inline" to "block", you can tell the browser to render the inline
element in a block box rather than an inline box, and vice versa.
Hovewer, doing this will not change the category and the content model
of the element. For example, even if the display of the span element
is changed to "block", it still would not allow to nest a div element
inside it.

Word overflowing in div

I am working on a khmer site, I dont know the language, the words are too long. I am trying to fit them in div but they are over flowing. Is there a way that the part of word comes down automatically such that it fits in the div, and over flow part is in next line.
I dont know what to do with it, please help.
Find the image in the attachment
You should use the word-wrap property of CSS to force the text to stay inside div without overflowing.
word-wrap: break-word
See the DEMO here
Check without this property and with it to see the difference.
See if this works - word-wrap: break-word;
Use the word-wrap CSS property:
.mydiv {
word-wrap: break-word;
}
You can give the below CSS style to the div to prevent the div text from overflowing.
div {
word-wrap: break-word;
}
There is an CSS Attribute for "text overflow" inside HTML Objects
You can do somesthing like that to prevent an overflow by default.
.ellipsis {
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}
reference at W3School
Please note that text-overflow property only occurs when the containers overflow property has the value hidden, scroll or auto.
If you want to warp the long words in multiple lines instead of just "cutting" them you may use "word-wrap: break-word;" which causes the Browser to split long words. (reference)
Please note that both specs are widely supported but very old browsers may ignore them. You can see details in the references.

Limit text to x number of lines and append '...'

I am looking for a Javascript/jQuery + CSS way to limit a text (for example a product name) to say, 2 lines. But the visitors need to know that it is truncated and therefore I will need to append '...' at the end.
The original way I thought of doing this was to put the text in 1 line, measure the width of it and cut it off just before the text reaches 2 times the width of the containing div, but it seems tricky as each character probably needs to be caculated for its width rather than that.
Limiting it to number of characters or words will not work in this case - I would like to fully fill the 2 lines of that div every time, instead of having gaps.
Is there a nice way to achieve this instead of using a monospaced font?
Since you're using jQuery try these plugins:
http://dotdotdot.frebsite.nl/
https://pvdspek.github.com/jquery.autoellipsis/
https://github.com/theproductguy/ThreeDots
https://github.com/jjenzz/jquery.ellipsis
We can use css for this:
.truncate {
width: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
display: inline-block; /* for links */
}

How do I keep a Label, Button, or TextArea as a single line?

Lets say I have a Label, Button, or TextArea object, that contains some amount of text. The way that things work by default is that text put in these objects will automatically word wrap around to the next line. Is there a way to disable this? I am aware that the CSS attribute
overflow : hidden ;
will stop the scrollbar from showing up. But is there a way to stop the text from going to the next line?
I wish it to be the case that if I have a string that is "wider" than the object it is placed within, it will simply write out the string to the limit of what the object can contain, without wrapping it to the next line? Anyone have a way of doing this?
Thank you.
You can use the following css definition to achieve this:
<style type="text/css">
.element {
width:200px;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
-o-text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
}
</style>
<div class="element">
This text will not wrap. Hamina hamina hamina hamina hamina.
</div>
This should prevent any text from wrapping to the next line. If the text exceeds the width of the element, it cuts off. If you are using webkit / explorer you will get a nifty ellipsis effect where the text cuts off (to suggest that there is more text than is visible).
Unfortunately firefox does not support ellipsis. But the text will still cut off and will not wrap.
I haven't tested this defintion with button or textarea elements - only with divs. But I see no reason it should not work. I leave it to you to experiment.

overflow: hidden on the left side too?

could one use overflow:hidden for both sides?
cause i want the row to be centered.
EDIT: ive got a row of link elements. i want it to be like: http://jqueryfordesigners.com/coda-popup-bubbles/
the row will stick out both to the left and right. not just on the right side. with other words: i want to center a very long row within a div which is styled with overflow:hidden and white-space: nowrap.
here is my code:
http://jsbin.com/afuni/edit
if the row is too long the right elements wont be shown. i want the left elements to not be shown too so that the center link will always be in center.
overflow: hidden will hide content that doesn't fit inside it's box model. Based on the question asked, I believe there is a different CSS solution for you. Can you post the HTML/CSS and your objective?
edit: to center a row that may extend outside its boundaries, I would use z-index: 100, position: relative, and text-align: center. I need to check your markup, however. Hope that helps!
Nope, you can't make the text clip from both edges using overflow: hidden, you need additional markup with negative margins etc. Not worth the trouble I think.

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