I’m also not the biggest fan of setting it over and over on elements, so let’s set a variable we can use later, and then use it to set a global line-height. I’m not the worlds biggest fan of united line-height, but alas, it’s necessary here to do the math. If you set the max-height to 1.4rem * 3, you’ve done it! Imagine an element has a line-height of 1.4rem and you want to make sure it only shows a maximum of three lines of text. I first saw this trick on the now-dead Mobify blog, and more recently covered by Natalia Onischuk on Hacking UI. So when I have very long piece of text (e.g. This can be done with settings: label.wrap Off. In WebKit, there isnt an alternative to ellipsis. when I have a label which is not big enough to store the text then I can setup my label to put ellipsis ('.') at the end of the text automatically. React component that uses the css line clamping to truncate given text in. Note that WebKit can sometimes cut off the last letters of the word.
Finally, we will view some experimental features of the property and how to accomplish a multi-line truncate. From there we’ll take a look at cross browser support. First, I’ll demonstrate how to truncate text using the CSS text-overflow property. We somehow failed to cover it properly in our canonical post on line clamping, so I’ll cover it here then add it to that post. React component for truncating multi-line spans and adding an ellipsis. In this video I am going to talk about truncating text. There is another way though, which is very clever and something I’d call a bonafide CSS trick. It’s gotten a little easier lately since Firefox (since version 68) has started supporting the ultra-bizarre -webkit-line-clamp soup method, which makes browser support for that pretty OK. Using just CSS (no JavaScript or server-side dancing) is nice for the simplicity. Truncating multiple lines is a bit harder. Truncating a single line of text if is fairly straightforward.
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