Truncating an individual block of text within a list item - html

I have a list of items, where each item is split up into 3 parts.
<li>[long part(1)] [separator(2)] [important part(3)]</li>
I want the first part ("long part") to truncate instead of wrap.
I can get the first part to not wrap, while the other parts wrap - but I can't figure out how to get the browser to truncate the first part.
Here's a codepen example: https://codepen.io/fiver/pen/rGRevq?editors=1010
Use the Change view button to move the output pane to the side. Then you can use the slider to see the wrapping behaviour. I tried using flexbox ("flex try") and styling overflow attributes ("overflow try") but both just extend the text out off the view.
The third item is my workaround (just let it wrap) - it's not what I want to do, but it works.
So is there any way I can get that first part to truncate (with or without ellipsis)?
I only need to get this working in modern browsers: Edge (not actually a bid deal), Chrome, Firefox and Safari (mobile and desktop). I don't need to worry about IE or Android browser.
Example of answer: https://codepen.io/fiver/pen/yEYWmp

Your "overflow try" works but you need to put these 2 in <li>
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;

as you are using spans. you need to set display property in CSS and width too.
span {
display: block;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
width: 40%; /* it be upto requirment */
}

Related

text-overflow: ellipsis fighting with direction: rtl

I like displaying emails properly, meaning not [at].
To fight the bots I reverse the text in the html and then re-reverse it with css using direction: rtl. That worked fine for many many years, until an email dared to break lines.
You can see what happens on the screenshots; kinda hard to explain–
Thats the mess that happens
This is how it looks when there is enough space
The http-host is always the same, so I figured using text-overflow: ellipsis together with white-space: nowrap and overflow: hidden on the <a>. That went south aswell;
(side note: it wasn't possible for me to fully highlight the visible text?)
(The end of the highlight is NOT the end of the box!)
Okay; the text-overflow clipping comes first, then the reversing; I get it.
So lets put overflow: hidden and text-overflow: ellipsis on the parent, which is a <p> and the white-space: nowrap on the a (scared that a telephone number will get chopped off)
I played around with a combination which styles go to the p and which to the a .. and I had one solution (which I unfortunately can't reproduce oO) where the dots were at the right side (which is what I want) but the text still gets chopped of an the visual left of the outcome, meaning the name name of the email, which I do not want to clip!
Long question short..
How can I get the following result?
S.Rossa#park-reside...
When my email markup looks like this:
<a href="/email.php?to=rossa" class="direction">
<?php echo strrev("S.Rossa#park-residenz-alfeld.de"); ?>
</a>
Out of many reasons I cannot go back from the direction: rtl thing on the emails.
Please keep that in mind when suggesting a way to
keep the email from breaking lines, no matter what
and a convenient way to clip it with ...
with css only
Thanks!
The browser is given a string. When you tell it to shrink it and replace what doesn't fit with an ellipsis, it will always cut from the end of the string. It doesn't know your string is reversed and it trusts you when you tell it: this string should be read from right to left (direction:rtl). The end is on the left side.
Therefore, with CSS alone, the closest (and most decent) thing you can get is cutting from left side and placing the ellipsis where the cut was made:
a.direction {
direction: rtl;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
/* proof of concept: */
width: 25%;
display: inline-block;
}
‮ed.dlefla-znediser-krap#assoR.S
You have two options now. Either
give up on text-overflow: ellipsis and fake it using JavaScript (works, but it's ugly) or...
you could reverse the string before you render it and give up on direction: rtl (which is actually a trick, it's not correct and is the source of the problem). Of course, you need to make sure you only do this for browsers, not for bots. The easiest way would be to check navigator.userAgent:
if (!/bot|crawler|spider|crawling/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
var directions = document.querySelectorAll('.direction');
for (var i = 0; i < directions.length; i++ ) {
directions[i].textContent = directions[i].textContent.split('').reverse().join('');
}
}
a.direction {
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
max-width: 25%;
display: inline-block;
}
ed.dlefla-znediser-krap#assoR.S
However, navigator.userAgent is not to be trusted, as malicious bots will never declare themselves as bots. So you might want to use safer methods of excluding bots, such as a link (clickable only by bots) pointing to a php script that would set a session variable for them. If the variable is set, just add an invisible element to your page and in the above JavaScript, instead of checking navigator.userAgent, check for the added element.
If you want the emails correctly indexed by certain search engines, you should exclude them from this check.

Using HTML/CSS to limit the length of the sentences

I am calling few sentences from a JSON file and append it in a <p> tag.
<p>
Thank you all for another magical night spent together
this last sunday at The Hippodrome in Baltimore.Thank yo...
<p>
And i'd like to shorter it, even it's already been shorten in the json, am i able to use pure css or html to limit it's length?
I don't need any javascript/Jquery suggestion because if comes to javascirpt it's easy to accomplish this task, i might just play with dom, but in this case i want to see if there's any pure html and css method can do this.
UPDATE 1:
Everyone suggest me to convert the sentences in to one single line using white-space: nowrap and then hidden text by setting text-overflow:ellipsis but there's a limitation, the html can just display single line. Is there anyway to display another line?
CSS and HTML can't get length of the sentence. So, we don't have limit for CSS and HTML can't get length of the sentence. So, can't set limit length for the sentence. But if you want use CSS to truncate a line of the sentence with max-width of element. You can do:
p {
max-width: 100px;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
If you are single line, use text-overflow:ellipsis attributes to achieve a single line of text to display an ellipsis (overflow …). Of course, some browsers also need to add width attributes.
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
If it is a multi line, use WebKit CSS extended attribute (WebKit is private property) -webkit-line-clamp;. Attention: WebKit browser or mobile terminal (the majority is a WebKit based browser) page are easy to be implemented in the: This is a non-standard attribute (unsupported WebKit property) the, it does not appear in the draft of the CSS specification.
-webkit-line-clamp is used to limit the number of rows in a text displayed by a block element. In order to achieve this effect, it needs to be combined with other WebKit attributes.
Common binding properties:
overflow : hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
display: -webkit-box;
-webkit-line-clamp: 2;
-webkit-box-orient: vertical;
you can use as also the link https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/text-overflow
p {
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
max-width: 200px; /*width as you want */
}
Use this example:
<p style="width: 150px;height: 15px;overflow: hidden;">
Thank you all for another magical night spent together
this last sunday at The Hippodrome in Baltimore.Thank yo...
</p>
You'll want to truncate the text with CSS, and by the looks of it, you want multi-line text boxes that truncate correctly at the end (the answer by Anubhav is single-line specific). Because no pure-css options exist (that I'm aware of) to handle this, you'll probably need a jQuery plugin, such as clamp.js or similar.
The answer you probably want is from another SO thread, here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/33061059/5580153
Edit: There is also a fairly intricate CSS solution here: http://hackingui.com/front-end/a-pure-css-solution-for-multiline-text-truncation/ although it's a bit of a hacked solution I feel.
you can use text-overflow: ellipsis; instead. please read the example below.
<div id="readmore">Thank you all for another magical night spent together
this last sunday at The Hippodrome in Baltimore.
</div>
CSS
#readmore {
white-space: nowrap;
width: 12em;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
For more info please through this reference

CSS - Text appears under DIV instead of breaking onto new line

I'm working on a site wich has filters on category pages - http://www.purrfectlyyappy.com/fun-and-games/dog-toys
The filter is on the left hand side, but the text in the filter appears under the products when it's too long, is there a way i can set it to break onto a second line if the name is too long?
Seem like it should be easy, but i've been struggling on this!
This is happening because there is a css in you page
.hikashop_filter_checkbox {
white-space: nowrap;
}
Above css is already applied on your html page which is forcing elements to come in single line.
You can either remove this css and if not then use following css in label
.hikashop_filter_checkbox label{
white-space: normal;
}
Use the overflow property.
enter link description here
Here, adding :
overflow : scroll;
will make the "too long text" in a scroll area. There are many other values.

How can I do <p> tag word wrapping?

Consider:
As shown in the above image, the exceeding words need to hide and dotted line needs to show. How can I do this word wrapping in CSS and AngularJS?
You can use the text-overflow style available in CSS:
text-overflow: clip|ellipsis|string|initial|inherit;
Use ellipsis to trim the word and show dots.
See Word wrapping in CSS.
Just use a class for the clipping and apply it with 'ng':
.is-clipped {
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
width: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
}
To make the text cut off with ellipses when it overflows the container, with CSS you need to apply several properties to your container (in this case <p>):
text-overflow: ellipsis;
This is what defines the actual display (the ellipsis, or the dotted lines the way you called them).
Here is the list of all possible display types: text-overflow: clip|ellipsis|string|initial|inherit;
overflow: hidden;
This tells the content to cut-off when it overflows. If you don't set this, the text will simply display in full, without cut-off.
Other options are: overflow: visible|hidden|scroll|auto|initial|inherit;
width:
You need to set the vertical limit of the container, i.e. the point when the content needs to cut-off. Since you are using ellipses, you need to factor this into the width.
Important: For the content to cut-off, the container needs to be a block or inline-block element (e.g. no display: inline) and width needs to be applied in px, not in %.
white-space: nowrap;
This tells content that it should not wrap when it reaches the container limit set in step 3. If you don't set this, the content will simply wrap to the next line, and none of the text-overflow will apply.
All possible white-space values are: white-space: normal|nowrap|pre|pre-line|pre-wrap|initial|inherit;
Note: This will cut the text off at the point where the container ends, which will sometimes result in not so nice language syntax issues (e.g., words cut off mid-way, or a space between the last word and the ellipses).
Filter
app.filter('ellipsis', function() {
return function(text, length) {
if (text && text.length > length) { // If it is not null then check length
return text.substr(0, length) + "........";
}
return text;
}
});
Use this filter in the view as:
<span ng-bind="post.post_content | ellipsis:200"></span>
To do it in CSS, you can use the ellipsis property. Please visit CSS text-overflow Property (W3Schools).

How to preserve div height with text line-breaks

I'm trying to show boxes of people's names.
The problem is that these names can get pretty long, and with a fixed width box, crazyness is sure to ensue. Long spaced text breaks, causing problems on new rows (http://jsfiddle.net/9MhWW/) and disabling line-breaks with white-space: nowrap; will overflow the box (http://jsfiddle.net/9MhWW/1/).
Working with line breaks seem like the best option. If you agree, that begs the following question: Is there a way to make sure the row-problem doesn't occur without losing part of the text, having a div for every row or giving the paragraph a fixed height?
If just one row is ok for you, set a overflow: hidden:
p { overflow: hidden; }
A nice effect will be using ellipsis to replace the overflowing text with ...:
p { overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; }
See this update to your fiddle.
I think I have come up with a solution. So bootstrap adds loads of stuff in to make it look nice of course, but in your case we have to undo some of that. So we have to get rid of the float left and replace it with display inline-block:
.span2{
float: none !important;
display:inline-block;
}
See the fiddle update. I had to change the text alignment to match what you had previously.