HTML / CSS Ellipsis (...) Not Working

Question

I'm attempting to get ellipsis working on my site. This is the following HTML / CSS code and it doesn't appear to be working.

CSS:

.oneline {
text-overflow:ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
width: 50px;
overflow: hidden;
}

HTML:

<div class="oneline">Testing 123 Testing 456 Testing 789</div>

Besmirch

Are you sure you're using a CSS3 compliant browser? – Tartuffe

Check out this answer if you're on FF: #4927757 – Lexical

Looks fine to me jsfiddle.net/ZBQnL – Hemoglobin

Working fine in latest versions of Chrome, FF, and IE9 – Afterdeck

This shouldn't even need a CSS3 compatible browser - even IE6 renders white-space:nowrap and text-overflow:ellipsis correctly. – Anhanhalt

Managed to fix it by styling the paragraph rather than the whole div. Cheers :) – Besmirch

Answer 1

Based on the initial post, we're all assuming the obvious, but just in case ... ;)

<style type="text/css">
    .oneline {
        text-overflow : ellipsis;
        white-space   : nowrap;
        width         : 50px;
        overflow      : hidden;
    }
</style>
<div class="oneline">Testing 123 Testing 456 Testing 789</div>

http://jsfiddle.net/NawcT/

EDIT: Solution was to style the paragraph vs the div.

Lexical

Seems to work fine on jsfiddle.net - I have the styling in a separate stylesheet. – Besmirch

Are you using multiple stylesheets? Maybe you have a resetter which is clobbering your text-overflow or overflow rules. You can try adding !important after the rule assignments to test that theory. – Lexical

Answer 2

Assigning position:absolute to the element to be truncated will probably have less undesired side-effects that float:left.

This worked for me:

div {
  position: absolute;
  width: 70px;
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

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