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CSS Property: text-overflow

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The CSS (CSS3) text-overflow property indicates how text that has overflowed is rendered by the browser.

 

Valid property values (other than inherit and initial) are:

 

Value

Description

clip

(default value). Text is clipped without further action

ellipsis

Clipped text is rendered by an ellipsis, i.e. “…”

string

Clipped text is rendered by the given string

 

Default Value:

clip

JavaScript syntax:

e.g. object.style.textOverflow="ellipsis"

Inherited:

No

Animatable:

No

 


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