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Text overflow

Widely available since 2018-01-29
Tags: css svg Groups: CSS

The text-overflow CSS property sets how hidden overflow content appears to users. The property can clip content, truncate content with an ellipsis (…), or truncate with a custom string.

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Browser support (view on caniuse.com)

  • Chrome 1 Released on 2008-12-11
  • Chrome Android 18 Released on 2012-06-27
  • Edge 12 Released on 2015-07-29
  • Firefox 7 Released on 2011-09-27
  • Firefox for Android 7 Released on 2011-09-27
  • Safari 1.3 Released on 2005-04-15
  • Safari on iOS 1 Released on 2007-06-29