I have a responsive webpage where text is loaded from a database.
<p style="width: 95%; font-size:13px; padding-right:20px; color:#babec5; margin-top: 3px;">
Just 7 days left ... Bob, Father's Day is only one week away, s...</p>
There is more text after the '...'. The p element has two lines vertically and I would like to be able to clip off any content but still fill up the <p> if the size of the page changes.
you can use css overflow: hidden;, this will cut off the text.
If you want to have three dots at teh end, you can also use text-overflow: ellipsis; most modern browsers support that.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-overflow?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=CSS%2Ftext-overflow
in order for it to work however you need a fixed height or max-height
I'd just set the style to include overflow:hidden
e.g.
p
{
width: 95%;
height: 20px;
overflow: hidden;
}
here's a jsfiddle so you can see the effect (change bottom right panels size to see it in action)
http://jsfiddle.net/mdXCH/
Are you looking for this kind of css rules: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-text-20021024/#text-overflow-props
Related
I am just learning HTML and CSS (JavaScript will be next.) I am developing a website on which I have two boxes (defined as <div>s) side by side. They have different horizontal sizes, but each has "height: 1000px".
The large one sits right of the narrow one, and is defined by
<section style = "width:900px; height: 1000px; margin 10px; padding: 20px; background: #BBD1FF; display: inline-block; vertical-align:top;">
I added text within the confines of both boxes, and everything was fine. Then I added more text in the rightmost box, and the box seems to have expanded it's vertical dimension. The original and the new text in the box don't come close to filling the box, so what is going on here? I can't find any property of <div> which seems to relate to this.
Okay so i've taken a guess to what I think your trying to do. Basically, add max-width to your divs to prevent them from expanding. Here's a JSFiddle with something simple what I think your looking to do.
.div-one--left {
height: 1000px;
max-width: 50%;
min-width: 50%;
background: blue;
float: left;
display: block;
}
Also, when dealing with widths. Its good practise to always use percentages. You can't build responsively if your using pixels as widths (but thats off topic slightly).
http://jsfiddle.net/63617aLj/
I've got the following layout:
<article>
<h3><a>...</a></h3>
<h3><a>...</a></h3>
</article>
The first header has dynamic content, the second has a fixed width set.
I'd like the headers to be inline, and when the content of the first one grows, for it to stretch until the sum of both headers' widths is 100%, and then for overflow text to be ellipsis.
I've been running into the problem of once I make the first div inline or float, its width no longer stays contained by the parent, making text overflow everywhere, or with overflow set to hidden, I can't get the second header to be positioned on the same line with it.
P.S.: Unfortunately this will need to support as many old browsers as possible, back to I.E. 6 would be the best (/barf) but whichever solution reaches as far back as possible will be the most valuable. Thanks you!
If I understood the question right, it's easily achievable with flexible boxes:
article {
display: inline-flex;
width: 100%;
}
article > h3:nth-child(1) {
flex: 1;
}
article > h3:nth-child(2) {
flex: 0 0 150px;
}
a {
width: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
display: inline-block;
}
JSBin.
If I'm understanding the issue properly, the following JSFiddle may have the solution:
http://jsfiddle.net/modenadude/QntUm/2/
The code:
keeps the two <h2>s inline
if the width of the first <h2> gets wider than the width of the second <h2> + <article>'s width, it adds the ellipses to the first <h2>
I set max-width on the <h2>s (to 50%) just in case, and added outline to show the widths clearly.
I used jQuery to figure out the widths of the <h2>s onload, but the same can be done with pure JS by using getElementByID (I can set that up too if you'd like). And of course it was designed to be used on only two <h2>s and one <article> so simple editing could make it more expandable.
I would like a way to prevent columns of flowing text from becoming too narrow. For example, in a column of HTML text, there is an image floated to the left. Text flows down the right-hand side of the column around the image, as expected:
However, if the image is almost as wide as the column, then the text ends up being very narrow:
In this case I want the text to simply not flow past the image, but to drop below it as if the image were a block:
I am trying to find a simple and general way of doing this. It's for a blog - I want to be able to add the image and text, maybe add a class or paste in a bit of markup (sigh), and have the flow work. I would prefer to do it with CSS and HTML only because it's hard to insert JavaScript to the blog posts. I have a couple of methods (see my answers) but neither is satisfactory. Can you do better?
When you set display: inline-block; to an element, the element will be flowed with surrounding content.
So you would need to add a line-break <br> to produce a line break in text, but the vertical space of the line will remains as you mentioned. [and one more thing happens is the horizontal scroll-bar which will appear if you decrease the width of the panel.]
Introduction
Using <table></table> element has a lot of benefits here.
When you use <table> element (as the following), it causes the content goes to the next line. And when the remain horizontal space gets lower than width of the <table>, it'll go to the next line and push the content down.
And also, horizontally scroll-bar won't appear in this case, because browsers won't display the <table> when it hasn't any element inside or any specific height or border properties.
(different browsers have different behavior, Mozilla Firefox doesn't display table element with a specific border property but Google Chrome does.)
HTML:
<img src="http://placehold.it/100x50" alt="">
<table></table>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
CSS:
img { float: left; }
table { width: 12em; }
Here is the JSBin Demo.
The Solution
As a pure CSS way, I used ::before pseudo-element to create a element which behaves like the <table> HTML element.
HTML:
<div>
<img src="http://placehold.it/400x400" alt="">
<p class="content">
<!-- Here is the content... -->
</p>
</div>
CSS:
img { float: left; }
.content:before {
content: ' ';
display: table;
width: 10em; /* <-- Change the current width size */
}
Here is the JSBin demo.
A better solution is to give every paragraph an invisible CSS pseudo-element with the desired minimum paragraph width. If there isn't enough space to fit this pseudo-element, then it will be pushed down underneath the image, taking the paragraph with it.
If the img is flot: right, add clear: left to the p:before.
And if the img is float: left, add clear: right to the p:before
p:before {
content: "";
width: 10em;
display: block;
overflow: hidden;
clear: left; //use clear:right if img is float:left
}
I tried adding an extra element before the text. I think this would probably just about work. Something like this:
<style>
.shim { display: inline-block; height: 0; width: 12em; }
</style>
<img class="floated">
<div class="shim"></div><br>
If one examines Derridaist reading...
This is OK - if the flow column is narrow then the shim drops below the image and the text follows it. I have to add the <br> to stop the text being indented by 12 ems, which adds a line of vertical space. I guess I could reduce the line-height on the <br>but the whole thing might end up being a bit verbose.
The simplest method I found is to set the minimum width of the column by preventing the first few words from wrapping:
<style>
.chunk { white-space: nowrap; }
</style>
<p><span class="chunk">If one examines</span> Derridaist reading...
This works well, but:
I have to manually edit the text each time I do this
I can't precisely control the column width (in ems or pixels)
I've got the following HTML group.
<div id="item-groups">
<!-- Section to select product types -->
<div class="item-group-button">
<!-- Item Group Selection Button -->
<h3>Beverage</h3>
</div>
<div class="item-group-button">
<!-- Item Group Selection Button -->
<h3>Tobacco</h3>
</div>
</div>
I've designed the following CSS for the above elements..
#item-groups{
height: 75px;
}
.item-group-button{
width:130px;
height:40px;
float:left;
margin:17px 0px 0px 20px;
border-radius:10px;
background:#4e5154;
}
.item-group-button h3{
padding:0px;
margin:8px 0px 0px 29px;
color:white;
}
How Can I design the CSS so that the item-groups div can act as a frame. To explain a little bit, The item-group-butons are loaded from a DB and the amount of elements are dependent on the number of DB records. when the elements exceed a certain limit, the excess elements go out of order. How can I stop this? I went through a method where making other elements position absolute then the needed element can act as a frame. but in my case that is not possible.
I tried removing the width limit of the item-groups element but no use!
Update:
As you can see the first images displayes correctly but the second images shows that with more buttons, other elements go out of the order. How can I fix this. I want the buttons to stick to one line rather than going to the second line.
When using html frames, when there is more elements to show, there will be a scroll bar! How can I use that functionality in a Div.
It's a simple CSS trick that can be done bu using the following codes.
for the parent element :
#item-groups{
height: 80px;
width: inherit;
overflow-x: scroll; <-- Make the scrolling horizontal
white-space: nowrap; <-- Handle the white space in the element
}
for the child element :
.item-group-button{
width: 130px;
height: 40px;
margin: 17px 0px 0px 20px;
border-radius: 10px;
background: #4e5154;
display: inline-block; <-- this will display the excess elements in a line
}
removing the float from the child element is necessary.
Thank you guys for your effort!
To get the scroll bar, you would use overflow-x: scroll; on the container, which allows the elements within to expand beyond its bounds, and creates a scroll bar when that happens.
I would like to point out that for a menu this might not be the best option. The scroll bar just won't mesh with the design well. I see two alternatives:
Re size buttons if the container can not fit them. Basically, you would define the max-width: property, and give them a percentage width:, thus all the buttons will look normal until there is overflow. Obviously this could be a problem with labeling. You may need to do overflow-x: hidden; on the label text to make it look right. Or try. . .
Create your own scrolling. If you are comfortable with a little JavaScript, you can use overflow-x: hidden; and position: relative; on the container, then have a "slider" inside of it that holds the buttons, and has position: absolute;. Then, on either end of the container would be hover-buttons, that would trigger JS to adjust the position of the slider, thus scrolling. This will only work if JS is enabled, though you can simply fall back to the overflow-x: scroll; method in such a case. The advantage here is that everything looks nice and uniform.
I generally try to stray away from forcing scroll bars, as each OS/browser can render them very differently. Now you can style scroll bars, as CSS3 provides a number of pseudo-elements to deal with them. Unfortunately browser support is sketchy, and requires special browser specific codes, which means it really isn't a very good option.
I was wondering if the following structure is possible.
Here I have a div of fixed width and height (the outer box). I made it to have fixed width and height because it's a list item and I want them to be uniform. Now, I'm having a problem with the Description area. I want it to have text that will wrap into multiple lines, and if it doesn't fit, it would show an ellipses. Now I'm planning to set the font-size and line-height strictly as to maybe show 2 lines of text in the Description div. Is this correct? I'm worried that the rendering will be messed up on some browsers and the design might be very fragile. I'm also a bit unsure on how to implement the ellipses using CSS-only solution. I've tried the text-overflow: ellipsis but couldn't quite get it to work.
To be honest, I'm still not sure if I'm on the right path. I'm thinking there might already be an existing/better solution for this structure. Is anyone else doing this? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Here's the JsFiddle link:
http://jsfiddle.net/3kJWQ/4/
This seems to work:
.description {
height: 60px;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 21px;
overflow: hidden;
border: 1px solid #000;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
}
From: http://deepubalan.com/blog/2010/11/27/text-overflow-css3-property-explained-pure-css-solution-to-get-ellipsis/
text-overflow: ellipsis comes into play only when:
The box has overflow other than visible.
The box has white-space: nowrap.
I got the solution from this question:
Cross browsers mult-lines text overflow with ellipsis appended within a width&height fixed div?
I chose to use the plugin jQuery dotdotdot.