I'm using Bootstrap and I have a table with a few columns, the last of which sometimes has a long piece of text without spaces. I noticed that under certain screen sizes, the table would overflow its parent div and create ugly overlapping with its sibling table.
I played around with it and I think the problem has to do with the text being unspaced. I created a jsfiddle that demonstrates what I mean.
As you can see, the top leftmost table is well behaved and simply grows vertically to accommodate more text. However, the bottom left table leads to an overflow on the right due to the long unspaced text and the right column of the bottom left table winds up "under" its sibling.
Does anyone have any tips on how I can fix this so that the very long text gets clipped or partially split onto a new line?
.the-table {
table-layout: fixed;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
Deprecated (i.e. word-wrap)
Add the following styles to your <table>
.the-table {
table-layout: fixed;
over-flow: break-word;
}
Then you can adjust your layout via-CSS as you wish.
This works without forcing table layout to be fixed
Just add it to td or any
.is-breakable {
word-break: break-word;
}
I was having trouble with these solutions working in Internet Explorer.
I used the following style to get it to finally work.
<td style="word-break: break-all">
You can use below css. This will wrap the text and apply ... in the end of the text.
e.g. This_is_a_large_text will be changed to This_is_a_lar...
td {
max-width: 120px;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
}
You can also add tool tip to show the complete text value.
<td data-toggle="tooltip" title="${text}">${text}</td>
Albers answer did the trick for me
.the-table {
table-layout: fixed;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
In the JS to load it dynamically add
$("#" + tableName ).addClass('the-table');
Hope it helps!!
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There's a billion of tutorials, but none have worked for me unfortunately.
I need some artistnames to be in the header, centered, but with a css ellipsis, so very long names gets the "..." and will be truncated.
You can see the design here: http://www.cphrecmedia.dk/musikdk/mobile/artistchannel.php
Remember to resize your browser window.
Its meant for mobiles, so I cannot have any fixed withs and it should work with all kinds of mobile screensizes. I can make the ellipsis work, but then the text is no longer centered.
Any clue on how to do this best? I would really like to avoid any javascript as performance is highly important.
You need to update the rules for h1 with overflow & text-overflow.
.header h1, .headerwhite h1 {
font-size: 15px;
line-height: 49px;
text-overflow: ellipsis;/* generates dots if text on one single line and truncated */
overflow: hidden;/* triggers text-oveflow and mids floatting elements */
white-space: nowrap;/* keep text on a single line to trigger text-overflow; */
display: block;/* reset to basic behavior of h1 , else inline-block drops down if not enough room */
}
basicly same answer as dartanian300 :)
You may control the max-width of h1 too and add a margin:auto; : demo
UPDATE
Using display: inline-block simply removes the h1 altogether on smaller screens. You should avoid this.
Also, technically, the text is still centered. It takes into account the ellipsis when centering the text.
ORIGINAL ANSWER
In order for the ellipsis styling to work, you've got to set a few things on the element with the text:
display: block;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
display: block ensures that the box you're trying to generate ellipsis on is shown as a block. If it's not, it won't know where the bounding box is.
text-overflow: ellipsis obviously should generate the ellipsis.
overflow: hidden for some reason, browsers won't generate the ellipsis unless you have this. I believe it has to do with the fact that the text will just flow outside the box with it.
white-space: nowrap this prevents your text from wrapping onto multiple lines. That way, you have one line with ellipsis at the end.
That work?
Please take look at this code:
td {
max-width: 80px;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/kd4zF/
I want "td" Description cell to display in 2 rows. Overflow should be hidden.
white-space: nowrap; display only one row, and without it all text is showing.
Any ideas?
add :before and :after to td refer this http://jsfiddle.net/microbians/csYjC/
Try
white-space:pre;
also press on enter where you need to break the text.
Check the following screenshot
text-overflow: ellipsis just works on single lines. That's why you have to use the white-space thing.
You have to make some JavaScript to achieve it. There's also a jQuery plugin: http://pvdspek.github.io/jquery.autoellipsis
There's also a little CSS trick that can fake it in multiple lines: http://www.mobify.com/blog/multiline-ellipsis-in-pure-css
I tried adjusting the width in several places of my CSS, but the text keeps on flowing on one line and doesn't wrap within a "leftsidebar". There seems to be no limit as to how far my text goes to the right, and I want there to be a limit. How do I set that in CSS?
<h3> JKHJKHJKHKJHJKHJKHJKHKJHJKHJKHKJH</h3>
#leftsidebar {
position:fixed;
width: 160px;
top:150px;
margin:0px;
line-height:165%;
white-space:nowrap;
z-index:50;
padding: 0px 35px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/4uxcN/
Remove white-space:nowrap; (and eventually add word-wrap: break-word; to respect your div boundaries with your no-spaced long word) to send the text to new lines;
add overflow-x: scroll; if you instead want the text in one single line but want to have an horizontal scrollbar inside your fixed width div: http://jsfiddle.net/4uxcN/10/
If you're talking about word-wrap: break-word property it will break the word when it reaches the end of the parent width.
Remove {white-space:nowrap;}, which forces your text to one line and add {word-wrap: break-word} to deal with your very long word.
http://jsfiddle.net/4uxcN/6/
#leftsidebar {
word-wrap: break-word;
}
Basically, there are 3 ways you can do it:
Just remove your white-space property. LINK
Remove white-space property, and add word-wrap: break-word; property. LINK
Set you white-space to pre-wrap instead of nowrap. LINK
If you remove
white-space:nowrap;
All text will break at the spaces to fit within the box width.
Super long strings like the one in you example will not break. To force stupid long strings to break you can use.
word-wrap:break-word;
also you could use an overflow property Like
overflow:scroll
It just really depends on the layout you are going for
Inline elements are great, because their width is the width of the content and because it's possible to center them with on rule of CSS:
text-align: center
But inline elements stay on the same line. Is it possible to align them vertically?
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/_bop/NhVaF/
Full screen fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/_bop/NhVaF/show
Please don't:
Change the HTML in the example. Change the CSS!
Come up with other techniques to center elements, unless you have a better solution that works on elements with unspecified width and doesn't need tons of containers and/or float hacks.
Thanks in advance!
In your markup, if the span are on different rows you could add on the parent container:
white-space: pre-line;
With this CSS declaration, your span are still centered, and you don`t have to add HTML markup.
pre-line
- This value will cause sequences of whitespace to collapse into a single space character. Line breaks will occur wherever
necessary to fill line boxes, and at new lines in the markup (or at
occurrences of "\a" in generated content). In other words, it’s like
normal except that it’ll honor explicit line breaks.
You can find more informations here about white-space:
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/white-space
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#white-space
For an IE7 compatibility, you could also add on the parent container:
*white-space: pre /*FixIE7*/;
You need some holding block to hold your spans if you want to display it on top of another. This is the best I can do.
http://jsfiddle.net/NhVaF/5/
If you want to make it work without altering the html, then your best bet is to simply float: left; clear: left; like so:
span {
float: left;
clear: left;
color: #FFF;
padding: 30px;
}
display: block; will not work because it requires you to set a width (or else they'll fill the available space).
display: inline-block; will not work because still display on the same line.
I was just playing around with this too, and found my solution by simply placing <br> after each inline-block element. I know it's altering the html but only slightly!
If you want to create line breaks with CSS try using the :after pseudo class. Would something like this work?
div.class:after {
content:"\a";
white-space: pre;
}
break :after trick: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10934138/6586407
I've got a <table> that contains a few columns whose textual value can be too long, therefore I wan't to "trim" them using "text-overflow: ellipsis" and "overflow: hidden" on the <td>'s in CSS. I noticed that in order for me to do that I have to set "table-layout: fixed" on the <table> which then forces me to specifically set every single column's width.
I didn't want to apply a bunch of class names or IDs to the columns, so I used the following CSS solution:
#error-list th:nth-child(1),
#error-list th:nth-child(6) {
width: 53px;
}
#error-list th:nth-child(2) {
width: 131px;
}
#error-list th:nth-child(3) {
width: 226px;
}
#error-list td:nth-child(3),
#error-list td:nth-child(4) {
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
}
The column list is fixed, so it isn't a big deal that I'm using the column's ordinal to style it, and I'm happy that the markup is leaner. This solution works great, but I wanted to ask whether there is a better solution.
In order for the above to work, I had to set the column width's such that it took account for padding and border as well. That way it would work in IE, Chrome and FF. It feels pretty nasty doing it this way, but when I tried using "-webkit-box-sizing: content-box" (so I could set the column widths without having to also worry about padding/border), Chrome didn't respect it.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way? I don't mind having to hard-code every column width, but I hate having to use the border-box box-sizing.
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but this is what I came up with:
http://jsfiddle.net/e7ZKq/1/
If you set a max-width to your td rule along with your other properties, the cells will fit to the content until you hit that max width and then it will cutoff the remainder with the ellipsis.