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CSS text-overflow property


The text-overflow property determines how overflowed content that is not displayed is signaled to users.

Example

Sample example of text-overflow is shown as follows

<html>
   <head>
      <style>
         p.text1 {
            white-space: nowrap;
            width: 200px;
            border: 1px solid #000000;
            overflow: hidden;
            text-overflow: clip;
         }
         p.text2 {
            white-space: nowrap;
            width: 200px;
            border: 1px solid #000000;
            overflow: hidden;
            text-overflow: ellipsis;
         }
      </style>
   </head>
   <body>
      <b>Original Text:</b>
      <p>Tutorials Point originated from the idea that there exists a class of
      readers who respond better to online content and prefer to learn new skills at
      their own pace from the comforts of their drawing rooms.</p>
      <b>Text overflow:clip:</b>
     
      <p class = "text1">Tutorials Point originated from the idea that there exists
      a class of readers who respond better to online content and prefer to learn
      new skills at their own pace from the comforts of their drawing rooms.</p>
      <b>Text overflow:ellipsis</b>
     
      <p class = "text2">Tutorials Point originated from the idea that there exists
      a class of readers who respond better to online content and prefer to learn
      new skills at their own pace from the comforts of their drawing rooms.</p>
   </body>
</html>

Output

CSS text-overflow property