I'm trying to truncate some HTML included within a table cell. A link to what I'm trying to do is here http://jsfiddle.net/rBthS/1459/
The HTML for the table is simple...
<table>
<tr><td>
<p>Something is great</p>
<p>Something else is great</p>
<p>And finally everything is great</p></p></td>
</tr></table>
And I'd like to only display the first line of text followed by an ellipsis indicating the overflow, i.e. Something is ...
However because of the paragraphs it appears multiline without any ellipsis.
i.e.
Something is ...
Something els...
And finally e...
I need to keep all the HTML formatting i.e. the tags.
The CSS I'm using is as follows and works great for text without paragraphs
td
{
max-width: 100px;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
border: 1px solid red;
}
All you need to do is set your paragraph tag to inline like so:
p {
display: inline;
}
If I understand correctly, that should work exactly how you explained.
Recently I have been having a few issues with using a content editable div as a text box for a project I have been working on. The project is built with Angular2 on the front-end.
The issue I have been having is when I go to tab/space all the way to the end of the content editable div, rather than moving to the next line, it instead keeps adding tabs that appear to accumulate in the text content of the div. By that I mean, if I hit the tab/space key 4 times once it reaches the end, I will then have to backspace 4 times to clear them out.
<div class="text-box" contenteditable="true"></div>
body
{
background-color: black;
}
.text-box
{
background-color: white;
color: black;
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
margin: auto;
white-space: pre-wrap;
}
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/YxYNYW
The code pen I included demonstrates the issue. If you just click inside the box and then hold space bar, once the cursor gets to the end, it will not move to a newline. I realize it has something to do with the white-space: pre-wrap property I use with the content editable div. Is there anyway to get this to work while still being able to use that property?
I would like to keep the pre-wrap property because it preserves all the white-space that is brought in from objects with text in the database. I tried it with the pre-line property over pre-wrap but that caused the text to jump when clicking into the editable div. I also tried using word-break: break-all which seemed to work but then the text gets a little messed up.
Also on a side note, has anyone ever experienced an issue where they were unable to click between characters once the text was highlighted? This is kind of a weird issue to describe, and a tough one to track down apparently. What happens is I will type some text into the div, highlight it with my cursor, and then if I try to deselect the text by clicking in between characters, it will not work. I will have to click a line that is currently not highlighted or outside of the element entirely to deselect any highlighted text.
I originally thought maybe it was a content editable issue, but it seems to be working fine in the code pen I linked, so now I am not sure what it is.
Thanks in advance for the help!
You have to use word-break for solving your issue.Modify your css like following
body
{
background-color: black;
}
.text-box
{
background-color: white;
color: black;
height: 200px;
width:150px;
margin: auto;
white-space: pre-wrap;
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */
word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
word-break: break-word;
white-space: normal;
}
This solves your problem.Here is the working pen pen
Please reffer this ans for more info
I currently have an ordered list like this one where the numbers and items are centered and left aligned:
I achieved this using this css:
ol
{
padding-left:1em;
padding-right:1em;
display: inline-block;
text-align: left;
word-break: break-word !important;
/*white-space: nowrap*/
}
The problem I am seeing is that it wraps text strangely - it will wrap list items (create a new line) if they are a certain amount longer than the other list items. This creates things like in the picture above (or in text format):
1.Sleeping
Bags
2.Tent
3.Food
4.Stove
5.Jackets
6.Bug Spray
Notice how the Bags is on a new line, but that is not where the div ends. I tried using white-space: nowrap, but obviously that does what it says and long text then continues beyond the div without breaking.
Also, it may just be some sort of browser glitch because sometimes when I hit back and the page is cached it will load correctly, and in safari instead of chrome it seems to work correctly without white-space: nowrap.
Any help / ideas appreciated, or if it is just some weird unfixable thing, I am sorry
You can try Below code:
working demo
div{text-align:center;}
ol
{
padding-left:1em;
padding-right:1em;
display: inline-block;
text-align: left;
word-break: break-word !important;
/*white-space: nowrap*/
}
Give the list a (bigger) width:
ol {
width: 200px;
... rest of CSS
}
As for debugging, I often add a border: 1px solid red; so you can see how far the element extends. If you add it to the ol you'll see that it's width causes the line break. So making it bigger should do the trick.
Hi! When the window is resized, the text automatically wraps to fit its container nicely. For this, I'm using this CSS code:
article {
overflow: auto;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
Though it seems, that this has no effect at all. When I remove this piece of code, the behavior doesn't change: the text is still wrapped near the end of the line.
I'm complaining about the huge gaps between words. I've observed a few webpages where no extra code is used for this and it still works nicely. Can you please help me get rid of the space? Thank you!
I agree that the text-align: justify has been inherited from the parent html tags.
You could also try modifying the CSS as follows:
article {
overflow: auto;
word-wrap: break-word;
text-align: start;
}
As mentioned in the comments article seems to be inheriting text-align: justify;. Here's a way to fix the alignment:
http://jsfiddle.net/awesome/zs394/2/
article, .unjust {
/* regular */
text-align: left;
/* super strength */
text-align: left !important;
}
I have two floated divs, side by side, with p tags inside. The text within the p tags does not wrap and just overflows the container, as you can see in the text under the images:
My HTML looks like so:
<div class="submenu">
<h3>Destinations in Europe</h3>
<ul>
<li>dfgdgdgfgdg</li>
<li>dfgdgdgfgdg</li>
<li>dfgdgdgfgdg</li>
<li>dfgdgdgfgdg</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<div>
<img src="/assets/images/o/menu/city-feat-one.jpg" />
<h4>blahblah</h4>
<p>
khkhjhjkhkyhkighkjfkhkiyhohhjkhjlhkluoiulohlhjhiououhljhiououhljhiououhljhiououhljhiououhljhiououhl
</p>
</div>
<div>
<img src="/assets/images/o/menu/city-feat-two.jpg" />
<h4>blahblah</h4>
<p>
khkhjhjkhkyhkighkjfkhkiyhohhjkhjlhkluoiulohlhjhiououhl
</p>
</div>
</div>
My CSS:
#rb-menu-com li .submenu > div {
width:48%;
float:left;
position: relative;
}
#rb-menu-com li .submenu div p {
color:#fff;
margin: 0;
padding:0;
width:100%;
position: relative;
}
#rb-menu-com li .submenu div img {
border:1px solid #fff;
}
Has anyone experienced this before? I haven't!! Driving me mad!
Give this style to the <p> tag.
p {
word-break: break-all;
white-space: normal;
}
Word wrapping only occurs when there is a word break.
If you have a "word" that is as long as that, then there is no place for it to break.
The proper solution is to write real content and not nonsense strings of characters. If you are using user generated content, then add a check for exceptionally long words and disallow them (or cut out part of them for URLs while keeping the whole thing in a link).
Alternatively, you can use the word-break CSS property to tell the browser to line break in the middle of words.
p { word-break: break-all }
(Note browser support).
Alternatively, you can use overflow to truncate the text if it won't fit in the container.
To anyone still struggling, be sure to check and see if you've set a line-height value on the font in question: it could be overriding the word wrap.
That is because you have continuous text, means single long word without space. To break it add word-break: break-all;
.submenu div p {
color:#fff;
margin: 0;
padding:0;
width:100%;
position: relative;
word-break: break-all;
background:red;
}
DEMO
This is not an answer to the question but as I found this page while looking to an answer to a problem that I had, I want to mention the solution that I found as it cost me a lot of time. In the hope this will be useful to others:
The problem was that text in a <p> tag would not fold in the div. Eventually, I opened the inspector and noticed a 'no breaking space entity' between all the words. My editor, vi, was just showing normal blank spaces (some invisible chr, I don't know what) but I had copied pasted the text from a PDF document. The solution was to copy a blank space from within vi and replace it with a blank space. ie.
:%s/ / /g where the blank to be replaced was copied from the offending text. Problem solved.
This is a little late for this question but others might benefit.
I had a similar problem but had an added requirement for the text to correctly wrap in all device sizes. So in my case this worked. Need to setup the view port.
.p
{
white-space: normal;
overflow-wrap: break-word;
width: 96vw;
}
You can use word-wrap to break words or a continuous string of characters if it doesn't fit on a line in a container.
word-wrap: break-word;
this will keep breaking lines at appropriate break points unless a single string of characters doesn't fit on a line, in that case it will break.
JSFiddle
The solutions is in fact
p{
white-space:normal;
}
You can change the break behaviors by modifying, word-break property
p{
word-break: break-all; // will break at end of line
}
break-all: Will break the string at the very end, breaking at the last word
word-break: is more of pretty brake, will break nicely for example at ? point
normal: same as word-break
If the desired result is to break the line by complete word use:
p { word-break: break-word; }
else you can use:
p { word-break: break-all; }
EASY
p{
word-wrap: break-word;
}
Adding width: 100%; to the offending p element solved the problem for me. I don't know why it works.
For others that find themselves here, the css I was looking for was
overflow-wrap: break-word;
Which will only break a word if it needs to (the length of the single word is greater than the width of the p), unlike word-break: break-all which can break the last word of every line.
overflow-wrap demo
add float: left property to the image.
#rb-menu-com li .submenu div img {
border:1px solid #fff;
float:left;
}