CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko
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CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko
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Re: CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko
#2Awesome! I've always felt dirty fixing text-overflow (more often than not a cosmetic fix) on the backend, albeit it's not often feasible to create web sites where content and presentation are truly separated.
Re: CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko
#3Yep, that means that every major browser (including IE6!) supports it now. As soon as FF6 has spread, we can begin to make real use of it :).
Re: CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko
#4"text-overflow: ellipsis" is a great start, but it's really too bad it only applies to individual lines of text (via "white-space: nowrap").
it would be very useful if we had a property to truncate text when it reaches the end of a container with a fixed height. so if the container is 3.5 lines tall, 3 lines should be shown with an ellipsis at the last character. bonus points if we can specify a separator, so that the ellipsis will only be applied after the last whole word (space), line (line break), or just character.
Re: CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko
#5I've been missing this feature in HTML for so long when making tables/overviews. Great to hear it's finally implemented.
Re: CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko
#6Yep, that means that every major browser (including IE6!) supports it now. As soon as FF6 has spread, we can begin to make real use of it :).
If everyone had that attitude, we'd still be stuck at HTML 3.2... Yes, it needs time to catch up, sure, but in a few years it will be useful to have.
Re: CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko
#7jQuery Mobile makes extensive use of this (though I've turned it off on a mobile app I'm making).
CanIUse shows that Firefox is the last browser to support ellipsis [1] and comparing Firefox 7 to Chrome 14 [2] shows a few other things that some web developers would like.
Firefox also has quite a long way to go on HTML5 forms [3].
[1] http://www.caniuse.com/#search=overflow [2] http://www.caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=firefox+7&b2=ch... [3] http://wufoo.com/html5/
Re: CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko
#8Yep, that means that every major browser (including IE6!) supports it now. As soon as FF6 has spread, we can begin to make real use of it :).
It's just a cosmetic feature, so you can use it already. Older browsers won't show the ellipsis in that case but who cares. Graceful fallback is automatic.
Re: CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko
#9Yep, that means that every major browser (including IE6!) supports it now. As soon as FF6 has spread, we can begin to make real use of it :).
I've been maintaining a jQuery plugin for the text-overflow property for a while. It works well in most cases: http://www.bramstein.com/projects/text-overflow/
You can see a test page here, which only works in Firefox due to the feature detection: http://www.bramstein.com/projects/text-overflow/examples.htm...
Re: CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko
#10Next up: "text-align: centaur" (http://textaligncentaur.com).