I'm trying to create a text-overflow: ellipsis; from the beginning, but in some specific context, it reverses the characters.
This is a CodePen to illustrate the problem: https://codepen.io/DWboutin/pen/yLaoxog
HTML:
<div class="ellipsis">Path to you prefered files that you love so much forever and ever fuck yeah</div>
<div class="ellipsis">1":"#323130",messageLink:t?"#6CB8F6":"#005A9E",messageLinkHovered:t?"#82C7FF":"#004578",infoIcon:t?"#</div>
CSS:
div {
margin: 10px 0;
border: 1px solid black;
}
.ellipsis {
width: 400px;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
direction: rtl;
}
I tried all word-break properties, wrapping the string into another span to force it to be ltr but it don't work.
Thank you for your help
unicode-bidi might help you with an extra wrapper to handle text direction:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/unicode-bidi
The unicode-bidi CSS property, together with the direction property, determines how bidirectional text in a document is handled. For example, if a block of content contains both left-to-right and right-to-left text, the user-agent uses a complex Unicode algorithm to decide how to display the text. The unicode-bidi property overrides this algorithm and allows the developer to control the text embedding.
div {
margin: 10px 0;
border: 1px solid black;
width:max-content;
}
.ellipsis {
width: 400px;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
direction: rtl;
}
.ellipsis span {
direction: ltr;
unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
}
<div class="ellipsis">Path to you prefered files that you love so much forever and ever fuck yeah</div>
<div class="ellipsis"><span>1":"#323130",messageLink:t?"#6CB8F6":"#005A9E",messageLinkHovered:t?"#82C7FF":"#004578",infoIcon:t?"#</span></div>
original text :
<div>Path to you prefered files that you love so much forever and ever fuck yeah</div>
<div><span>1":"#323130",messageLink:t?"#6CB8F6":"#005A9E",messageLinkHovered:t?"#82C7FF":"#004578",infoIcon:t?"#</span></div>
Note, that extra wrapper needs to remain an inline element (display:inline) , an inline-box will not be part of the ellipsis rule but will overflow to the left, a block element will overflow on the right.
I'm currently trying to make a text box with hiding overflowing text. It works fine, but for some part. I'm using
text-overflow: ellipsis;
This should put three dots ("...") at the place where my text is cut off, but it doesn't place three dots, instead it places the character which looks like three dots (called 'ellipsis').
The font I'm currently using doesn't have this character, so it shows some other random character instead of three dots.
Does anyone have a simple workaround (no javascript involved please, only CSS), while keeping my font for the text ?
To completely imitate the functionality of text-overflow: ellipsis without using JavaScript while still having complete browser support (text-overflow: "..." only works in Firefox 9 in the time of this post, and is completely unavailable on any other browser) is extremely difficult (if not impossible).
The only solution I can think of without any "hacks" is to edit your font file, creating a unicode character for the ... ellipsis character. I have next to no experience in this area, but here's a link that seems pretty good: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ttfedit/
Here's some HTML code I've got:
<div id="wrapoff">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Pellentesque vehicula, augue id pretium euismod, nisi dolor sodales orci, non porttitor ligula velit ac lorem.
</div>
And some CSS:
#wrapoff {
width: 200px;
border: 2px solid blue;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
}
#wrapoff:after {
content: "...";
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
background-color: white;
padding: 0 5px;
}
This adds a pseudo-element on top of the #wrapoff div, at the top right hand corner, allowing the content to work like text-overflow: ellipsis. The downside to this is that the "ellipsis" always shows there, regardless of whether the content actually extends off and overflows. This cannot be fixed, as there is no way using CSS to figure out whether the text overflows off the page.
Here's a JSFiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/ysoxyuje/
The border is to show you the size of the element itself.
Make sure you have
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
with your
text-overflow: ellipsis;
http://jsfiddle.net/cbppL/707/
HTML
<header>
<h1>Long text is so long oh my is long indeed</h1>
</header>
CSS
header {
border:1px solid red;
width:150px;
position:relative;
}
h1 {
overflow:hidden;
white-space:nowrap;
/* -ms-text-overflow:ellipsis; */
/* text-overflow:ellipsis; */
width:150px;
height:1.2em;
}
header:after{
content:"...";
position:absolute;
top:0;
right:0;
background:#fff;
}
h1:hover {
overflow:visible;
}
Not a very good solution. It will depend on what kind of background you have. Hope Helps!
Instead of "ellipsis", you can actually specify your own set of characters to signify text overflowing.
If your custom font has the period defined, you should be able to just use three periods like this:
text-overflow: '...';
Here's a JSFiddle of it in action: http://jsfiddle.net/x5e6yv21/
From what I understand you're problem is that, in the font you're using, you're missing the ellipsis character.
To quickly fix this you could select this last-letter with the ::last-letter pseudo-element selectorand change the font-family property to another font that supports ellipsis _
So, I know this isn't ideal but it is a work-around. The CSS3 specification says that the ellipsis must take their style from the container that they're in. This works correctly in all browsers except IE8/9 which takes it's ellipsis style from the first letter of the container. The work-around I propose is to wrap the text inside of your "overflowed" elements with an inline element, give the outer container a font where the ellipsis character is defined and give the inline element inside your custom font. It would look something like this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/u9dudost/2/
If you need to add IE8/9 support, add the following:
div {
white-space: nowrap;
}
div::before {
font-family: 'Helvetica', sans-serif; /* Your custom font here. */
content: ''; /* IE9 fix */
}
You need to use the following together:
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
I have this div:
<div class="text">
Thisismytextwontgoinanewparagraph
</div>
with this CSS:
.text
{
background-color:red;
width:100px;
}
As you can see in this JSFiddle, the text goes outside of the div.
Is there a way in CSS to force wrapping for a text without spaces (such as a hyperlink)?
you could try this, but it's not very pretty:
.text
{
background-color:red;
width:100px;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/esGEn/1/
Why not just use ellipsis with overflow hidden? That will also look pretty.
.text {
background-color: red;
width: 100px;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
Here is how I did it. I added the <br> tag to the text I wanted to push to the next line.
<p> Sleek custom designs and durable functionality. <br>Let your headwear work for you. </p>
text multiple lines example
How to achieve same output without <br>?
<p>hello <br> How are you </p>
output:
hello
How are you
You can use white-space: pre; to make elements act like <pre>, which preserves newlines. Example:
p {
white-space: pre;
}
<p>hello
How are you</p>
Note for IE that this only works in IE8+.
Impossible with the same HTML structure, you must have something to distinguish between Hello and How are you.
I suggest using spans that you will then display as blocks (just like a <div> actually).
p span {
display: block;
}
<p><span>hello</span><span>How are you</span></p>
Use <br/> as normal, but hide it with display: none when you don't want it.
I would expect most people finding this question want to use css / responsive design to decide whether or not a line-break appears in a specific place. (and don't have anything personal against <br/>)
While not immediately obvious, you can actually apply display:none to a <br/> tag to hide it, which enables the use of media queries in tandem with semantic BR tags.
<div>
The quick brown fox<br />
jumps over the lazy dog
</div>
#media screen and (min-width: 20em) {
br {
display: none; /* hide the BR tag for wider screens (i.e. disable the line break) */
}
}
This is useful in responsive design where you need to force text into two lines at an exact break.
jsfiddle example
There are several options for defining the handling of white spaces and line breaks.
If one can put the content in e.g. a <p> tag it is pretty easy to get whatever one wants.
For preserving line breaks but not white spaces use pre-line (not pre) like in:
<style>
p {
white-space: pre-line; /* collapse WS, preserve LB */
}
</style>
<p>hello
How are you</p>
If another behavior is wanted choose among one of these (WS=WhiteSpace, LB=LineBreak):
white-space: normal; /* collapse WS, wrap as necessary, collapse LB */
white-space: nowrap; /* collapse WS, no wrapping, collapse LB */
white-space: pre; /* preserve WS, no wrapping, preserve LB */
white-space: pre-wrap; /* preserve WS, wrap as necessary, preserve LB */
white-space: inherit; /* all as parent element */
SOURCE: W3 Schools
The "\a" command in CSS generates a carriage return. This is CSS, not HTML, so it shall be closer to what you want: no extra markup.
In a blockquote, the example below displays both the title and the source link and separate the two with a carriage return ("\a"):
blockquote[title][cite]:after {
content:attr(title)"\a"attr(cite)
}
In the CSS use the code
p {
white-space: pre-line;
}
With this CSS every enter inside the P tag will be a break-line at the HTML.
Building on what has been said before, this is a pure CSS solution that works.
<style>
span {
display: inline;
}
span:before {
content: "\a ";
white-space: pre;
}
</style>
<p>
First line of text. <span>Next line.</span>
</p>
To make an element have a line break afterwards, assign it:
display:block;
Non-floated elements after a block level element will appear on the next line. Many elements, such as <p> and <div> are already block level elements so you can just use those.
But while this is good to know, this really depends more on the context of your content. In your example, you would not want to use CSS to force a line break. The <br /> is appropriate because semantically the p tag is the the most appropriate for the text you are displaying. More markup just to hang CSS off it is unnecessary. Technically it's not exactly a paragraph, but there is no <greeting> tag, so use what you have. Describing your content well with HTMl is way more important - after you have that then figure out how to make it look pretty.
<pre> <---------------------------------------
lorem ipsum
lorem ipsum
lorem ipsum
lorem ipsum
lorem ipsum
</pre> <--------------------------------------
OR
<div style="white-space:pre"> <-----------------------------------
lorem ipsum
lorem ipsum
lorem ipsum
lorem ipsum
lorem ipsum
</div> <-----------------------------------
source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36191199/2377343
Here's a bad solution to a bad question, but one that literally meets the brief:
p {
width : 12ex;
}
p:before {
content: ".";
float: right;
padding-left: 6ex;
visibility: hidden;
}
Use overflow-wrap: break-word; like:
.yourelement{
overflow-wrap: break-word;
}
Maybe someone will have the same issue as me:
I was in a element with display: flex so I had to use flex-direction: column.
For a List of Links
The other answers provide some good ways of adding line breaks, depending on the situation. But it should be noted that the :after selector is one of the better ways to do this for CSS control over lists of links (and similar things), for reasons noted below.
Here's an example, assuming a table of contents:
<style type="text/css">
.toc a:after{ content: "\a"; white-space: pre; }
</style>
<span class="toc">
Item A1 Item A2
Item B1 Item B2
</span>
And here's Simon_Weaver's technique, which is simpler and more compatible. It doesn't separate style and content as much, requires more code, and there may be cases where you want to add breaks after the fact. Still a great solution though, especially for older IE.
<style type="text/css">
.toc br{ display: none; } /* comment out for horizontal links */
</style>
<span class="toc">
Item A1<br/> Item A2<br/>
Item B1<br/> Item B2<br/>
</span>
Note the advantages of the above solutions:
No matter the whitespace in the HTML, the output is the same (vs. pre)
No extra padding is added to the elements (see NickG's display:block comments)
You can easily switch between horizontal and vertical lists of links with some shared CSS without going into every HTML file for a style change
No float or clear styles affecting surrounding content
The style is separate from the content (vs. <br/>, or pre with hard-coded breaks)
This can also work for loose links using a.toc:after and <a class="toc">
You can add multiple breaks and even prefix/suffix text
Setting a br tag to display: none is helpful, but then you can end up with WordsRunTogether. I've found it more helpful to instead replace it with a space character, like so:
HTML:
<h1>
Breaking<br />News:<br />BR<br />Considered<br />Harmful!
</h1>
CSS:
#media (min-device-width: 1281px){
h1 br {content: ' ';}
h1 br:after {content: ' ';}
}
I like very simple solutions, here is one more:
<p>hello <span>How are you</span></p>
and CSS:
p {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
How about<pre> tag?
source: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_pre.asp
The code can be:
<div class="text-class"><span>hello</span><span>How are you</span></div>
CSS would be:
.text-class {
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-start;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
}
You need to declare the content within <span class="class_name"></span>. After it the line will be break.
\A means line feed character.
.class_name::after {
content: "\A";
white-space: pre;
}
You can add a lot of padding and force text to be split to new line, for example
p {
padding-right: 50%;
}
Worked fine for me in a situation with responsive design, where only within a certain width range it was needed for text to be split.
Using white-space will not work for long sentences without spaces like HiHowAreYouHopeYouAreDoingGood...etc to fix this consider using word-wrap: break-word; instead
it's made to allow long words to be able to break and wrap onto the next line., its used by Facebook, Instagram and me 😆
Example
#container {
width: 40%;
background-color: grey;
overflow:hidden;
margin:10px;
}
#container p{
white-space: pre-line;
background-color: green;
}
.flex{
display: flex;
}
#wrap {
width: 30%;
background-color: grey;
overflow:hidden;
margin:10px;
}
#wrap p{
word-wrap: break-word;
background-color: green;
}
<h1> white-space: pre-line;</h1>
<div class='flex'>
<div id="container">
<h5>With spaces </h5>
<p>Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1</p>
</div>
<div id="container">
<h5>No specaes (not working )</h5> <p>HiHowAreYouHopeYouAreDoingGoodHiHowAreYouHopeYouAreDoingGoodHiHowAreYouHopeYouAreDoingGood</p>
</div>
</div>
<h1> word-wrap: break-word;</h1>
<div class='flex'>
<div id="wrap">
<h5>With spaces </h5>
<p>Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1</p>
</div>
<div id="wrap">
<h5>No specaes (working )</h5> <p>HiHowAreYouHopeYouAreDoingGoodHiHowAreYouHopeYouAreDoingGoodHiHowAreYouHopeYouAreDoingGoodHiHowAreYouHopeYouAreDoingGood</p>
</div>
</div>
On CSS-tricks, Chris Coyier have tested lots of options and the final and pretty neat one was using display:table, Each one have their own problems which you will find out when you use background-color on the span!
body {
padding: 20px;
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}
h1 {
font-weight: 300;
font-size: 24px;
line-height: 1.6;
background: #eee;
padding: 20px;
margin: 5px 0 25px 0;
text-align:center;
}
h1 span {
color: white;
font-weight: 900;
}
h1 span {
background: black;
padding: 1px 8px;
display: table;
margin:auto;
}
<h1 class="one">
Break right after this
<span>
and before this
</span>
</h1>
Here You can see all other options on codepen:
Injecting a Line Break
A modern and simple solution could be setting the width like that:
width: min-content;
This CSS rule is mostly useful for text content, but not only:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/min-content
p {
margin: 20px;
color: #222;
font-family:'Century Gothic', sans-serif;
border: 2px dotted grey;
padding: 3px;
}
.max {
width: max-content;
}
.min {
width: min-content;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head />
<body>
<p class="max"> Max width available </p>
<p class="min"> Min width available </p>
</body>
</html>
Both Vincent Robert and Joey Adams answers are valid. If you don't want, however, change the markup, you can just insert a <br /> using javascript.
There is no way to do it in CSS without changing the markup.
In my case, I needed an input button to have a line break before it.
I applied the following style to the button and it worked:
clear:both;
In case this helps someone...
You could do this:
<p>This is an <a class="on-new-line">inline link</a>?</p>
With this css:
a.on-new-line:before {
content: ' ';
font-size:0;
display:block;
line-height:0;
}
Using instead of spaces will prevent a break.
<span>I DONT WANT TO BREAK THIS LINE UP, but this text can be on any line.</span>
I'm guessing you did not want to use a breakpoint because it will always break the line. Is that correct? If so how about adding a breakpoint <br /> in your text, then giving it a class like <br class="hidebreak"/> then using media query right above the size you want it to break to hide the <br /> so it breaks at a specific width but stays inline above that width.
HTML:
<p>
The below line breaks at 766px.
</p>
<p>
This is the line of text<br class="hidebreak"> I want to break.
</p>
CSS:
#media (min-width: 767px) {
br.hidebreak {display:none;}
}
https://jsfiddle.net/517Design/o71yw5vd/
This works in Chrome:
p::after {
content: "-";
color: transparent;
display: block;
}