I tried using :
- text-overflow ellipsis feature in CSS3 (but doesn't support multi-line)
- several jquery plugins like dotdotdot (http://dotdotdot.frebsite.nl/)
- jquery autoellipsis (http://pvdspek.github.com/jquery.autoellipsis/).
All of these tools work quite well but if content has images the calculated height for truncation with dotdotdot or jquery.autoellipsis is wrong.
I was just wondering if someone has a great idea for dealing with this (maybe some server-side processing on ?), Thanks by advance :-).
Use your own ellipsis positioning offsets by setting a fixed height for the multi-line div
, then absolutely positioning the img
and the ellipsis to simplify the script. The right offset is specific to the font-size
and kerning of the particular letters of each sentence, so trial and error is necessary unless a monospace font is used. The basic structure is something like this:
<style type="text/css">
.truncate { position: absolute; top: 20px; right: 6px; background-color: #fff; }
.lineup { top: 6px; }
.monalisa { position: absolute; top: 2px; left: -18px; }
.wrapper { position: relative; width: 360px }
.textblob { width: 330px; height: 30px; }
</style>
<!--...-->
<div class="wrapper">
<img class="monalisa" src="hppt://www.stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico" alt="SO"/>
<div class="textblob">
<span class="truncate">…</span>
<span class="snippet">blah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blah</span>
</div>
</div>
If you need X-Browser support(not only for Opera and Webkit, like @c69 explained).
I found a more fancy way.
But also for manually adjustment.
take a look at a working example on jsfiddle.
HTML
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
</p>
css
p {
height: 3.7em;
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
width: 235px;
}
p:after{
/* works since IE10 , ff16, chrome26, safari6.1,opera12, android4.4 ; previouse browser need prefixes */
background: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%,rgba(255,2055,255,1) 30%);
/* for IE9,IE8 */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#00ffffff', endColorstr='#ffffff',GradientType=1 );
bottom: 0;
content: "...";
float:right;
padding-left: 10px;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
}
Source:
1 mobify
2 css-tricks