I don't know why this simple CSS isn't working...
.app a {
height: 18px;
width: 140px;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
margin: 0 5px 0 5px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
color: #000;
}
<div class="app">
<a href="">Test Test Test Test Test Test</a>
</div>
Should cut off around the 4th "Test"
text-overflow:ellipsis;
only works when the following are true:
px
(pixels). Width in %
(percentage) won't work.overflow:hidden
and white-space:nowrap
set.The reason you're having problems here is because the width
of your a
element isn't constrained. You do have a width
setting, but because the element is set to display:inline
(i.e. the default) it is ignoring it, and nothing else is constraining its width either.
You can fix this by doing one of the following:
display:inline-block
or display:block
(probably the former, but depends on your layout needs).display:block
and give that element a fixed width
or max-width
.float:left
or float:right
(probably the former, but again, either should have the same effect as far as the ellipsis is concerned).I'd suggest display:inline-block
, since this will have the minimum collateral impact on your layout; it works very much like the display:inline
that it's using currently as far as the layout is concerned, but feel free to experiment with the other points as well; I've tried to give as much info as possible to help you understand how these things interact together; a large part of understanding CSS is about understanding how various styles work together.
Here's a snippet with your code, with a display:inline-block
added, to show how close you were.
.app a {
height: 18px;
width: 140px;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
margin: 0 5px 0 5px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
color: #000;
}
<div class="app">
<a href="">Test Test Test Test Test Test</a>
</div>
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