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CSS text wrapping and ellipsisPosted in 2011/04/22

Some of the relevant properties and W3Schools are referenced below:

The White-space property sets how to handle whitespace within an element.
Http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_text_white-space.asp
White-space:normal | Nowarp | Pre | Pre-line | Pre-warp | Inherit

Word-warp property setting How to handle a word's wrapping
Http://www.w3schools.com/css3/css3_pr_word-wrap.asp
Word-wrap:normal | Break-word

Word-break property set How to handle word break, only IE is supported
Http://www.w3schools.com/css3/css3_pr_word-break.asp
Word-break:normal | Break-all | Hyphenate

Overflow property setting How to handle content outside of element borders
Http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_overflow.asp
overflow:visible | Hidden | Scroll | Auto | Inherit

Text-overflow is a relatively special property, for out-of-element border with the ellipsis display in general there is no perfect CSS solution, need help with JavaScript

Text-overflow:clip | ellipsis | Ellipsis-word
Clip: Do not display the ellipsis tag (...). ), but a simple cut
Ellipsis: Displays ellipsis (...) when text inside an object overflows. ), the position where the ellipsis is inserted is the last character.
Ellipsis-word: Displays ellipsis (...) when text inside an object overflows. ), the position of the ellipsis insertion is the last word (word).

Opera-o-text-overflow
Firefox3 not supported can solve this problem with-moz-bing (https://developer.mozilla.org/En/CSS/-moz-binding)

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CSS text wrapping and ellipsis

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