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Truncate long text with ellipsis
How do I cut overflow text with …?
text-overflow ellipsis.
.title {
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
max-width: 240px;
}Notes
Needs a constrained width and nowrap.
Keywords: ellipsis · truncate · overflow · text
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