Is it possible to limit a text length to &quot;n&quot; lines using CSS (or cut it when overflows vertically).

`text-overflow: ellipsis;` only works for 1 line text.  

original text:

&gt; Ultrices natoque mus mattis, aliquam, cras in pellentesque  
&gt; tincidunt elit purus lectus, vel ut aliquet, elementum nunc  
&gt; nunc rhoncus placerat urna! Sit est sed! Ut penatibus turpis  
&gt; mus tincidunt! Dapibus sed aenean, magna sagittis, lorem velit

wanted output (2 lines):

&gt; Ultrices natoque mus mattis, aliquam, cras in pellentesque  
&gt; tincidunt elit purus lectus, vel ut aliquet, elementum...


Limit text length to n lines using CSS

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&#39;s a globally available builtin. 

After a search I found that it is used in some obscure variant of the slicing syntax by Numpy and Scipy... but almost nothing else. 

Was this object added to the language specifically to support Numpy + Scipy? Does Ellipsis have any generic meaning or use at all?

    D:\workspace\numpy&gt;python
    Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
    Type &quot;help&quot;, &quot;copyright&quot;, &quot;credits&quot; or &quot;license&quot; for more information.
    &gt;&gt;&gt; Ellipsis
    Ellipsis

What does the Ellipsis object do?

I don&#39;t know why this simple CSS isn&#39;t working...

&lt;!-- begin snippet: js hide: false console: true babel: false --&gt;

&lt;!-- language: lang-css --&gt;

    .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: ellipsis;
      white-space: nowrap;
      color: #000;
    }

&lt;!-- language: lang-html --&gt;

    &lt;div class=&quot;app&quot;&gt;
      &lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;Test Test Test Test Test Test&lt;/a&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;

&lt;!-- end snippet --&gt;

Should cut off around the 4th &quot;Test&quot;

CSS text-overflow: ellipsis; not working?

I have a `TextView` that I want to limit characters of it. Actually, I can do this but the thing that I&#39;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 although it limit my text.

    &lt;TextView 
            android:id						= &quot;@+id/tvFixture&quot;
        	android:layout_width			= &quot;wrap_content&quot;
        	android:layout_height			= &quot;wrap_content&quot;
        	android:layout_toLeftOf			= &quot;@id/ivFixture_Guest&quot;
        	android:text					= &quot;@string/test_06&quot;
        	android:lines					= &quot;1&quot;
        	android:ems						= &quot;3&quot;
        	android:gravity					= &quot;right&quot;
        	style							= &quot;@style/simpletopic.black&quot; 
        	android:ellipsize=&quot;end&quot;/&gt;

Android, How to limit width of TextView (and add three dots at the end of text)?

How can I get the first n characters of a string in PHP? What&#39;s the fastest way to trim a string to a specific number of characters, and append &#39;...&#39; if needed?

Truncate a string to first n characters of a string and add three dots if any characters are removed

with

    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    white-space: nowrap;

&quot;...&quot; 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 like:

    +--------------------+
    |abcde feg hij   dkjd|
    |dsji jdia js ajid  s|
    |jdis ajid dheu d ...|/*Here it&#39;s overflowed, so &quot;...&quot; is shown. */
    +--------------------+

With CSS, use &quot;...&quot; for overflowed block of multi-lines

I have got a span with dynamic data in my page, with `ellipsis` style.

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.my-class
{
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  overflow: hidden;
  white-space: nowrap;  
  width: 71px;
}
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;


    &lt;span id=&quot;myId&quot; class=&quot;my-class&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;document.getElementById(&#39;myId&#39;).innerText = &quot;...&quot;;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

I&#39;d like to add to this element tooltip with the same content, but I want it to appear only when the content is long and the ellipsis appear on screen.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Is there any way to do it?&lt;br&gt;
Does the browser throw an event when `ellipsis` is activated?

*Browser: Internet Explorer

HTML - how can I show tooltip ONLY when ellipsis is activated

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.

&lt;!-- begin snippet: js hide: false console: true babel: false --&gt;

&lt;!-- language: lang-css --&gt;

    p {
        width:100%;
        height:20%;
        background:red;
        position:absolute;
    }

&lt;!-- language: lang-html --&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla sed dui felis. Vivamus vitae pharetra nisl, eget fringilla elit. Ut nec est sapien. Aliquam dignissim velit sed nunc imperdiet cursus. Proin arcu diam, tempus ac vehicula a, dictum quis nibh. Maecenas vitae quam ac mi venenatis vulputate. Suspendisse fermentum suscipit eros, ac ultricies leo sagittis quis. Nunc sollicitudin lorem eget eros eleifend facilisis. Quisque bibendum sem at bibendum suscipit. Nam id tellus mi. Mauris vestibulum, eros ac ultrices lacinia, justo est faucibus ipsum, sed sollicitudin sapien odio sed est. In massa ipsum, bibendum quis lorem et, volutpat ultricies nisi. Maecenas scelerisque sodales ipsum a hendreritLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla sed dui felis. Vivamus vitae pharetra nisl, eget fringilla elit. Ut nec est sapien. Aliquam dignissim velit sed nunc imperdiet cursus. Proin arcu diam, tempus ac vehicula a, dictum quis nibh. Maecenas vitae quam ac mi venenatis vulputate. Suspendisse fermentum suscipit eros, ac ultricies leo sagittis quis. Nunc sollicitudin lorem eget eros eleifend facilisis. Quisque bibendum sem at bibendum suscipit. Nam id tellus mi. Mauris vestibulum, eros ac ultrices lacinia, justo est faucibus ipsum, sed sollicitudin sapien odio sed est. In massa ipsum, bibendum quis lorem et, volutpat ultricies nisi. Maecenas scelerisque sodales ipsum a hendrerit.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;!-- end snippet --&gt;

I have this JSFiddle to illustrate the issue. 
https://jsfiddle.net/96knodm6/

Applying an ellipsis to multiline text

I&#39;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

How to have Ellipsis effect on Text

I have a collection of block elements on a page. They all have the CSS rules white-space, overflow, text-overflow set so that overflowing text is trimmed and an ellipsis is used.

However, not all the elements overflow.

Is there anyway I can use javascript to detect which elements are overflowing?

Thanks.

Added: example HTML structure I am working with.

    &lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;Normal text&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;Long text that will be trimmed text&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

The SPAN elements always fit in the cells, they have the ellipsis rule applied. I want to detect when the ellipsis is applied to the text content of the SPAN.

HTML text-overflow ellipsis detection

In the [App Engine docs][1], what is the ellipsis (`JID...`) for in this method signature?

    public MessageBuilder withRecipientJids(JID... recipientJids)

What&#39;s the function of those three dots?

  [1]: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/javadoc/com/google/appengine/api/xmpp/MessageBuilder.html


What is the ellipsis (...) for in this method signature?

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 could write the above as long as I wanted and it would  still work.

EDIT:

 - How is it represented in memory?
 - What&#39;s its use? Examples of some cases where it is useful would be helpful.
 - Any link to official documentation would be really useful.


What do ellipsis [...] mean in a list?

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. Example usage:

    &gt; data.frame(letters=c(&quot;a&quot;, &quot;b&quot;, &quot;c&quot;), numbers=c(1,2,3), notes=c(&quot;do&quot;, &quot;re&quot;, &quot;mi&quot;))
      letters numbers notes
    1       a       1    do
    2       b       2    re
    3       c       3    mi

The function&#39;s signature includes an ellipsis, like this:

    function (..., row.names = NULL, check.rows = FALSE, check.names = TRUE, 
        stringsAsFactors = default.stringsAsFactors()) 
    {
        [FUNCTION DEFINITION HERE]
    }

I would like to write a function that does something similar, taking multiple values and consolidating them into a single return value (as well as doing some other processing). In order to do this, I need to figure out how to &quot;unpack&quot; the `...` from the function&#39;s arguments within the function. I don&#39;t know how to do this. The relevant line in the function definition of `data.frame` is `object &lt;- as.list(substitute(list(...)))[-1L]`, which I can&#39;t make any sense of.

So how can I convert the ellipsis from the function&#39;s signature into, for example, a list?

To be more specific, how can I write `get_list_from_ellipsis` in the code below?

    my_ellipsis_function(...) {
        input_list &lt;- get_list_from_ellipsis(...)
        output_list &lt;- lapply(X=input_list, FUN=do_something_interesting)
        return(output_list)
    }

    my_ellipsis_function(a=1:10,b=11:20,c=21:30)

---

## Edit ##

It seems there are two possible ways to do this. They are `as.list(substitute(list(...)))[-1L]` and `list(...)`. However, these two do not do exactly the same thing. (For differences, see examples in the answers.) Can anyone tell me what the practical difference between them is, and which one I should use?


How to use R&#39;s ellipsis feature when writing your own function?

This came up in  [Hidden features of Python][1], but I can&#39;t see good documentation or examples that explain how the feature works.


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/101268/hidden-features-of-python

How do you use the ellipsis slicing syntax in Python?

I&#39;ve just faced a little PHP snippet from 3v4l: https://3v4l.org/jmrZB

    echo 1...1; //10.1

And I&#39;m afraid I have no idea how to explain its results. Why is this considered valid at all?

Why does 1...1 evaluate to 10.1?

Consider the following example: ([live demo here][1])

&lt;!-- begin snippet: js hide: false console: true babel: false --&gt;

&lt;!-- language: lang-js --&gt;

    $(function() {
      console.log(&quot;width = &quot; + $(&quot;td&quot;).width());
    });

&lt;!-- language: lang-css --&gt;

    td {
      border: 1px solid black;
      width: 50px;
      overflow: hidden;
      text-overflow: ellipsis;
      white-space: nowrap;
    }

&lt;!-- language: lang-html --&gt;

    &lt;script src=&quot;https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;table&gt;
      &lt;tbody&gt;
        &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;Hello Stack Overflow&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;/tbody&gt;
    &lt;/table&gt;

&lt;!-- end snippet --&gt;

The output is: `width = 139`, and the ellipsis doesn&#39;t appear.

What am I missing here?

  [1]: http://jsfiddle.net/fd3Zx/1/

Why doesn&#39;t CSS ellipsis work in table cell?

I have a webpage with an elastic layout that changes its width if the browser window is resized.

In this layout there are headlines (`h2`) that will have a variable length (actually being headlines from blogposts that I don&#39;t have control over). Currently - if they are wider than the window - they are broken into two lines.

Is there an elegant, tested (cross-browser) solution - for example with jQuery - that shortens the innerHTML of that headline tag and adds &quot;...&quot; if the text would be too wide to fit into one line at the current screen/container width?



Insert ellipsis (...) into HTML tag if content too wide

The `text-overflow:ellipsis;` CSS property must be one of the few things that Microsoft has done right for the web.

All the other browsers now support it... except Firefox.

The Firefox developers have been [arguing over it since 2005](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312156) but despite the obvious demand for it, they can&#39;t seem to actually bring themselves to implement it (even an experimental `-moz-` implementation would be sufficient).

A few years ago, someone worked out a way to [hack Firefox 3 to make it support an ellipsis](http://ernstdehaan.blogspot.com/2008/10/ellipsis-in-all-modern-browsers.html). The hack uses the `-moz-binding` feature to implement it using XUL. Quite a number of sites are now using this hack.

The bad news? Firefox 4 is [removing the `-moz-binding` feature](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546857), which means this hack won&#39;t work any more.

So as soon as Firefox 4 is released (later this month, I hear), we&#39;re going to be back to the problem of having it not being able to support this feature.

So my question is: Is there any other way around this? (I&#39;m trying to avoid falling back to a Javascript solution if at all possible)

[EDIT]&lt;br /&gt;
Lots of up-votes, so I&#39;m obviously not the only one who wants to know, but I&#39;ve got one answer so far which basically says &#39;use javascript&#39;. I&#39;m still hoping for a solution that will either not need JS at all, or at worst only use it as a fall-back where the CSS feature doesn&#39;t work. So I&#39;m going to post a bounty on the question, on the off chance that someone, somewhere has found an answer.

[EDIT]&lt;br /&gt;
An update: Firefox has gone into rapid development mode, but despite FF5 now being released this feature still isn&#39;t supported. And now that the majority of users have upgraded from FF3.6, the hack is no longer a solution. The good news I&#39;m told that it *might* be added to Firefox 6, which with the new release schedule should be out in only a few months. If that&#39;s the case, then I guess I can wait it out, but it&#39;s a shame they couldn&#39;t have sorted it sooner.

[FINAL EDIT]&lt;br /&gt;
I see that the ellipsis feature has finally been added to Firefox&#39;s &quot;Aurora Channel&quot; (ie development version). This means that it should now be released as part of Firefox 7, which is due out toward the end of 2011. What a relief.

Release notes available here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/7


text-overflow:ellipsis in Firefox 4? (and FF5)

Where can I find documentation on the usage of `...` in functions? Examples would be useful.

Usage of `...` (three-dots or dot-dot-dot) in functions

&lt;p&gt;Google and some other developers have introduced us to what some have called the
hamburger menu button and now the 3 vertical dots button or vertical ellipsis. 
What is the official name of these buttons/icons?

&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if developers could consistently use a particular icon for menus.
It would also be nice to know what to tell novice users to press.

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Background Info:&lt;/b&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Horizontal Ellipsis	… `&amp;#8230; &amp;#x2026; &amp;hellip;`
&lt;br&gt;Apple uses the horizontal ellipsis and calls it the 
&lt;a href=&quot;https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204839&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;[More Options][1]&lt;/a&gt; icon.
&lt;br&gt;According to https://design.google.com/icons/ the icon is called &quot;more horiz&quot;.

&lt;p&gt;Vertical Ellipsis &amp;#8942; `&amp;#8942; &amp;#x22EE; &amp;vellip;` 
&lt;br&gt;Google+ for desktop seems to use this as a menu for communities. The Google+ app
uses this icon as a standard menu icon.
&lt;br&gt;According to https://design.google.com/icons/ the icon is called &quot;more vert&quot;.

&lt;p&gt;Identical To &amp;#8801; `&amp;#8801; &amp;#x2261; &amp;equiv;`
&lt;br&gt;Google Chrome uses an image similar to Identical To and calls it the 
&lt;a href=&quot;https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95414?hl=en&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;[Chrome menu][2]&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;br&gt;It has also been called the &quot;hamburger&quot; icon, &quot;hotdog&quot; icon, Options menu, Menu button,
Overflow menu, Side menu, Menu drawer...
&lt;br&gt;According to https://design.google.com/icons/ the icon is called &quot;menu&quot;.


  [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204839
  [2]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95414?hl=en

What is the hamburger menu icon called and the three vertical dots icon called?

I have a multi-line `TextView` that has `android:ellipsize=&quot;end&quot;` set. I would like to know, however, if the string I place in there is actually too long (so that I may make sure the full string is shown elsewhere on the page).

I could use `TextView.length()` and find about what the approximate length of string will fit, but since it&#39;s multiple lines, the `TextView` handles when to wrap, so this won&#39;t always work.

Any ideas?

How do I tell if my textview has been ellipsized?

My web page has input fields to which I have applied the following css :

```css
.ellip {
    white-space: nowrap;
    width: 200px;
    overflow: hidden;
    -o-text-overflow: ellipsis;
    -ms-text-overflow: ellipsis;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
```

But this doesn&#39;t seem to have any effect.
Am I missing something obvious here or is it not possible to have an ellipsis in an input field using CSS only?


How to use text-overflow ellipsis in an html input field?

I tried this and get weird behavior from JAVA, can someone explain this for me?

    boolean testNull(String... string) {
        if(string == null) {
            return true;
        } else {
            System.out.println(string.getClass());
            return false;
        }
    }

    boolean callTestNull(String s) {
        return testNull(s);
    }

Then I have test case:

        @Test
        public void test_cases() {
            assertTrue(instance.testNull(null)); // NULL
            assertFalse(instance.testNull()); // NOT NULL
            assertFalse(instance.callTestNull(null)); // NOT NULL
        }

The question is if I call `testNull()` directly with parameter `null`, I will get `true` back, but if call `callTestNull()` with `null`, which calls `testNull()`, it tells me the parameter is not null, but empty array.
 

Java 3 dots parameter (varargs) behavior when passed no arguments or null

I&#39;m sure all of us have seen ellipsis&#39; on Facebook statuses (or elsewhere), and clicked &quot;Show more&quot; and there are only another 2 characters or so. I&#39;d guess this is because of lazy programming, because surely there is an ideal method.

Mine counts slim characters `[iIl1]` as &quot;half characters&quot;, but this doesn&#39;t get around  ellipsis&#39; looking silly when they hide barely any characters.

Is there an ideal method? Here is mine:


    /**
     * Return a string with a maximum length of &lt;code&gt;length&lt;/code&gt; characters.
     * If there are more than &lt;code&gt;length&lt;/code&gt; characters, then string ends with an ellipsis (&quot;...&quot;).
     *
     * @param text
     * @param length
     * @return
     */
    public static String ellipsis(final String text, int length)
    {
        // The letters [iIl1] are slim enough to only count as half a character.
        length += Math.ceil(text.replaceAll(&quot;[^iIl]&quot;, &quot;&quot;).length() / 2.0d);

        if (text.length() &gt; length)
        {
            return text.substring(0, length - 3) + &quot;...&quot;;
        }

        return text;
    }

Language doesn&#39;t really matter, but tagged as Java because that&#39;s what I&#39;m mostly interested in seeing.

Ideal method to truncate a string with ellipsis

I am confused by the use of the ellipsis (`...`) in some functions, i.e. how to pass an object containing the arguments as a single argument.

In Python it is called &quot;unpacking argument lists&quot;, e.g.

    &gt;&gt;&gt; range(3, 6)             # normal call with separate arguments
    [3, 4, 5]
    &gt;&gt;&gt; args = [3, 6]
    &gt;&gt;&gt; range(*args)            # call with arguments unpacked from a list
    [3, 4, 5]

In R for instance you have the function `file.path(...)` that uses an ellipsis. I would like to have this behaviour:

    &gt; args &lt;- c(&#39;baz&#39;, &#39;foob&#39;) 
    &gt; file.path(&#39;/foo/bar/&#39;, args)
    [1] &#39;foo/bar/baz/foob&#39;

Instead, I get 
    
    [1] &#39;foo/bar/baz&#39; &#39;foo/bar/foob&#39;

where the elements of `args` are not &quot;unpacked&quot; and evaluated at the same time. Is there a R equivalent to Pythons `*arg`?

All Ellipsis Solutions on Gang of Coders

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