An ellipsis is a series of dots, (usually 3, i.e. "…") used to indicate the omission of a word within some text, or more commonly that the preceding text has been truncated.
Questions tagged [ellipsis]
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Limit text length to n lines using CSS
Is it possible to limit a text length to "n" lines using CSS (or cut it when overflows vertically).
text-overflow: ellipsis; only works for 1 line text.
original text:
Ultrices natoque mus mattis, aliquam, cras in pellentesque
tincidunt elit…
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What does the Ellipsis object do?
While idly surfing the namespace I noticed an odd looking object called Ellipsis, it does not seem to be or do anything special, but it's a globally available builtin.
After a search I found that it is used in some obscure variant of the slicing…
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CSS text-overflow: ellipsis; not working?
I don't know why this simple CSS isn't working...
.app a {
height: 18px;
width: 140px;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
margin: 0 5px 0 5px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
text-overflow:…
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Android, How to limit width of TextView (and add three dots at the end of text)?
I have a TextView that I want to limit characters of it. Actually, I can do this but the thing that I'm looking for is how to add three dots (...) at the end of string. This one shows the text has continue. This is my XML but there is no dots…
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Truncate a string to first n characters of a string and add three dots if any characters are removed
How can I get the first n characters of a string in PHP? What's the fastest way to trim a string to a specific number of characters, and append '...' if needed?
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css ellipsis on second line
CSS text-overflow: ellipsis on second line, is this possible? I can't find it on the net.
example:
what I want is like this:
I hope someone could help me. I need
an ellipsis on the second line of...
but what's happening is this:
I hope someone…
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Applying an ellipsis to multiline text
Is there a solution to add ellipsis on last line inside a div with a fluid height (20%)?
I found the -webkit-line-clamp function in CSS, but in my case the line number will be depending on window size.
p {
width:100%;
height:20%;
…
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With CSS, use "..." for overflowed block of multi-lines
with
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
"..." will be shown in the end of the line if overflowed.
However, this will be shown only in one line.
But I would like it to be shown in multi-lines.
It may looks…
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How to have Ellipsis effect on Text
I'm having a long text in my app and I need to truncate it and add three dots to the end.
How can I do that in React Native Text element?
Thanks
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HTML - how can I show tooltip ONLY when ellipsis is activated
I have got a span with dynamic data in my page, with ellipsis style.
.my-class
{
text-overflow: ellipsis;
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
width: 71px;
}
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HTML text-overflow ellipsis detection
I have some elements on my page which have the CSS rules white-space, overflow, text-overflow set, so that overflowing text is trimmed and an ellipsis is used.
div {
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
overflow: hidden;
border:…
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What is the ellipsis (...) for in this method signature?
In the App Engine docs, what is the ellipsis (JID...) for in this method signature?
public MessageBuilder withRecipientJids(JID... recipientJids)
What's the function of those three dots?
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How to use R's ellipsis feature when writing your own function?
The R language has a nifty feature for defining functions that can take a variable number of arguments. For example, the function data.frame takes any number of arguments, and each argument becomes the data for a column in the resulting data table.…
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What do ellipsis [...] mean in a list?
I was playing around in python. I used the following code in IDLE:
p = [1, 2]
p[1:1] = [p]
print p
The output was:
[1, [...], 2]
What is this […]? Interestingly I could now use this as a list of list of list up to infinity i.e.
p[1][1][1]....
I…
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How do you use the ellipsis slicing syntax in Python?
This came up in Hidden features of Python, but I can't see good documentation or examples that explain how the feature works.
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