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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.

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How to trigger text-overflow: ellipsis on multi-line element

I have this element that contains a string which exceeds the space available. Text should be displayed on two lines only. I need text-overflow: ellipsis to be triggered but it's not happening here. What am I doing wrong?
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Exporting ellipsis function from dll

Is it possible to export ellipsis(mutli arg) function? Example // dll function extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) int __cdecl LogText(const wchar_t* fmt, ...); // application typedef int (__cdecl *LogText)(const wchar_t* fmt, ...); LogText…
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Adding ellipsis to the first of a set of spans

I have something like this:

This could be a very long text  suffix 1  suffix 2

What I would like to do is, depending on the space available for…
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AutoEllipsis in StatusStrip Label?

I'm coding a Windows Forms App that has a StatusStrip that displays status informations to the user, and hints when the mouse is over relevant things. However, when the program is on it's minimal window size, the text sometimes is bigger than the…
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Nested inline-block element is pushed up in FF / IE when overflow is set to hidden

This doesn't occur in Chrome. I am trying to implement an Ellipsis for the nested element. Has anyone else come across this and, if so, were you able to work around? bar foo bar span.foo { display:…
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Ellipsis without fixed width

I'm trying to do something like this : I have three div with no fixed width. The left (red) and right (blue) areas should have the exact same width as their content (an image). The left and right area can have different width. The center div will…
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Adapting @bazmegakapa's Ellipsis Script for Inline Use

SO, I'm working on adapting @bazmegakapa's script (explained here) to work using inline tags: