Text overflow ellipsis on two lines
I know you can use a combination of CSS rules to make text end with ellipsis (...) when it's time to overflow (get out of parent's bounds).
Is it possible (feel free to just say, no) to achieve the same effect, but let the text wrap on more than one line?
Here's a demo.
div {
width: 300px;
height: 42px;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
}
As you can see, the text ends with ellipsis when it goes wider than the div's width. However, there is still enough space for the text to wrap on a second line and go on. This is interrupted by white-space: nowrap, which is required for the ellipsis to work.
Any ideas?
P.S.: No JS solutions, pure CSS if possible.
Easy CSS properties can do the trick. The following is for a three-line ellipsis.
display: -webkit-box;
-webkit-line-clamp: 3;
-webkit-box-orient: vertical;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
Take a look at this pure css version: http://codepen.io/martinwolf/pen/qlFdp
display: -webkit-box;
max-width: 400px;
height: 109.2px;
-webkit-line-clamp: 3;
-webkit-box-orient: vertical;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
line-height: 1.625;
I'm not sure if you have seen this article, but Chris Coyier's excellent CSS-Tricks.com posted a link to this a while back and it's a pure CSS solution that accomplishes exactly what you seek.
(Click to View on CodePen)
html,
body,
p {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: sans-serif;
}
.ellipsis {
overflow: hidden;
height: 200px;
line-height: 25px;
margin: 20px;
border: 5px solid #AAA;
}
.ellipsis:before {
content: "";
float: left;
width: 5px;
height: 200px;
}
.ellipsis>*:first-child {
float: right;
width: 100%;
margin-left: -5px;
}
.ellipsis:after {
content: "\02026";
box-sizing: content-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: content-box;
-moz-box-sizing: content-box;
float: right;
position: relative;
top: -25px;
left: 100%;
width: 3em;
margin-left: -3em;
padding-right: 5px;
text-align: right;
background-size: 100% 100%;
/* 512x1 image,gradient for IE9. Transparent at 0% -> white at 50% -> white at 100%.*/
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background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top, from(rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)), to(white), color-stop(50%, white));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), white 50%, white);
background: -o-linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), white 50%, white);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), white 50%, white);
background: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), white 50%, white);
}<div class="ellipsis">
<div>
<p>
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of
driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing
up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off –
then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
</p>
</div>
</div>Of course, being a pure CSS solution means that it's also a pretty complicated one, but it works cleanly and elegantly. I will assume that Javascript is out of the question because this is much easier to achieve (and arguably more degradable) with Javascript.
As an added bonus, there's a downloadable zip file of the complete process (if you want to understand it and all), but also a SASS mixin file so that you can fold it into your process easy-peasy.
Hope this helps!
http://www.mobify.com/blog/multiline-ellipsis-in-pure-css/
Use this if above is not working
display: -webkit-box;
max-width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
-webkit-line-clamp: 2;
/* autoprefixer: off */
-webkit-box-orient: vertical;
/* autoprefixer: on */
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
Css below should do the trick.
After the second line the, text will contain ...
line-height: 1em;
max-height: 2em;
display: -webkit-box;
-webkit-box-orient: vertical;
-webkit-line-clamp: 2;