text-overflow ellipsis does not work with dynamic width

css nested overflow ellipsis

18,498

Solution 1

Had display: table; in first div which was causing troubles with the ellipsis. If you delete this then the ellipsis works fine.

I wont delete the question it may help someone

Check it working here: http://jsfiddle.net/vNRpw/6/

Solution 2

What about something like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">

<style media="all">

.a {
    border:black 1px solid;
    float: left;
    width: 50%;
    line-height: 14px;
}
.b {
    width:100%;
    color: black;
    font-size: 14px;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    cursor: pointer;
}
.c {
    line-height: 11px;
    width: 98%;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    overflow: hidden;
    white-space:nowrap;
}

</style>

</head>
<body>

<div class="a">
    <div class="b">
        <div class="c">
        Here should go some text long enough to ellipsis the overflow
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

The main change was to put a width slightly less than 100% on .c.

18,498

Dan Stern

Updated on September 15, 2022

Comments

Dan Stern over 1 year
hope someone can help.

I have 3 nested div. Parent, children and children's children.

What i want to accomplish (the motive is not relevant) is that that child gets a relative width depending on the parent's width (a percentage) and the children's children must have an overflow ellipsis depending on that width. The problem is that if i use a % in the children's width the ellipsis does not work and if i define the width in pixeles it work.

Here is the HTML
```
<div class="a">
   <div class="b">
        <div class="c">
        Here should go some text long enough to ellipsis the overflow
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
```
Here is the nonworking CSS
```
    .a {
        border:black 1px solid;
        float: left;
        width: 122px;
        display: table;
        line-height: 14px;
    }
    .b {
        width:100%;
        color: black;
        font-size: 14px;
        text-transform: uppercase;
        cursor: pointer;
    }
    .c {
        line-height: 11px;
        width: 100%;
        text-overflow: ellipsis;
        overflow: hidden;
        white-space:nowrap;
    }
```
However if i change b's width for 122px it works perfect (note that 122px should equal 100%).

You can check it here: http://jsfiddle.net/vNRpw/4/

Thanks!
Bildonia about 10 years

this rule caused a ton of trouble with ellipsis in my code. At first it looks like the ellipsis works, until I resized the DIV. Taking display:table out worked perfectly. Thanks!
SearchForKnowledge over 9 years

Mine stays in one line and shows the ellipses. stackoverflow.com/questions/26342411/…
SearchForKnowledge over 9 years

Mine displays in one line without going to the next line of the DIV stackoverflow.com/questions/26342411/…
Junle Li over 9 years

I add ellipsis in side Bootstrap's input-group which has display:table. Besides remove display:table, any other way to resolve this? Update: it turns to another question: stackoverflow.com/questions/9789723/…
Mihai Popescu about 9 years

had the same problem with display:inline-table. changed to inline block and fixed it.