CSS overflow white-space CSS3 text-overflow Properties

The following properties can be used when the contents of the div are out of size and are prompted with the title property of the div to display content that is not displayed when the mouse is placed over it

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Instance

To set the overflow property:

Div  {  width:150px;  height:150px;  overflow:scroll;  }

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Browser support

All major browsers support the overflow property.

Note: The property value "Inherit" is not supported by any version of Internet Explorer (including IE8).

Definition and usage

The overflow property specifies what happens when the content overflows the element box.

Description

This property defines how the content of the overflow element's content area will be handled. If the value is scroll, the user agent provides a scrolling mechanism, whether or not it is required. Therefore, it is possible that scroll bars appear even if all the contents of the element box can be dropped.

Default value:	Visible
Inheritance:	No
Version:	CSS2
JavaScript Syntax:	object. style.overflow= "Scroll"

Possible values

value	Description
Visible	The default value. The content is not trimmed and is rendered outside the element box.
Hidden	The content is trimmed and the rest is not visible.
Scroll	The content is trimmed, but the browser displays scroll bars to see the rest of the content.
Auto	If the content is trimmed, the browser displays scroll bars to see the rest of the content.
Inherit	Specifies that the value of the overflow property should be inherited from the parent element.

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How to use scroll bars to display content that overflows within an element

This example shows how to set an overflow property to specify a corresponding action when the element content is too large to exceed the specified area.

How to hide overflow content in overflow elements

This example shows how to set the overflow property to hide its contents when the content in the element is too large to fit within the specified range.

How to set up a browser to handle overflow automatically

This example shows how to set up a browser to handle overflows automatically.

Related pages

CSS Tutorial: CSS Positioning

HTML DOM Reference manual: Overflow properties

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Definition and usage

The White-space property sets how to handle whitespace within an element.

This property declares how to handle whitespace in elements during layout creation. The values Pre-wrap and Pre-line are new in CSS 2.1.

Default value:	Normal
Inheritance:	Yes
Version:	CSS1
JavaScript Syntax:	object. style.whitespace= "Pre"

Instance

Text in a specified paragraph does not wrap:

P  {  white-space: nowrap  }

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Browser support

All browsers support the White-space property.

Note: The property value "Inherit" is not supported by any version of Internet Explorer (including IE8).

Possible values

value	Description
Normal	Default. The blank will be ignored by the browser.
Pre	The blank will be reserved by the browser. It behaves like a <pre> tag in HTML.
NoWrap	The text does not wrap, and the text continues on the same line until the <br> tag is encountered.
Pre-wrap	Preserves the sequence of whitespace characters, but wraps them normally.
Pre-line	Merges a sequence of whitespace characters, but preserves newline characters.
Inherit	Specifies that the value of the White-space property should be inherited from the parent element.

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Suppress text wrapping in an element

This example shows how to suppress the wrapping of text in an element.

Related pages

CSS Tutorial: CSS text

HTML DOM Reference manual: Whitespace properties

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Instance

Use the Text-overflow property:

Div.test{text-overflow:ellipsis;}

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There are more instances at the bottom of the page.

Browser support

IE	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	Opera

All major browsers support the Text-overflow property.

Definition and usage

The Text-overflow property specifies what happens when the text overflows the containing element.

Default value:	Clip
Inheritance:	No
Version:	CSS3
JavaScript Syntax:	object. style.textoverflow= "Ellipsis"

Grammar

text-overflow:clip|ellipsis| string;

value	Description	Test
Clip	Trims the text.	Test
Ellipsis	Displays the ellipsis to represent the trimmed text.	Test
String	Uses the given string to represent the trimmed text.

Try it yourself-example

Text-overflow with hover effect

This example shows how to display all the text when the cursor floats over the element.

Related pages

CSS3 Tutorial: CSS3 text effects

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CSS overflow white-space CSS3 text-overflow Properties