How to limit maximum characters in span or td tag

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I have made a css class ".views" and I have given it the fixed width and height. I have applied this class to a tag. I want when I put some text which is longer than its specific width the text do not cross its width and automatically shows at its end this symbol "...." as it is continue yet.

How can I do that? Would some one help me plz?

Posted 23-Mar-11 1:13am

rashidfarooq

Updated 23-Mar-11 1:29am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Mar-11 17:35pm

I don't think this is possible. You need to use different design...
--SA

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Jonathan Cardy · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-23T11:57:00

Solution 1

You need to set the CSS property text-overflow: ellipsis on your views class. There are some very specific steps you must also follow to ensure this property works, see this page[^] for instructions.

Note that this technique does not work in Firefox. If you wish to support Firefox, you could try this jQuery plugin[^].

Posted 23-Mar-11 11:57am

Jonathan Cardy

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rashidfarooq 26-Mar-11 14:07pm

Thanks A lot Brother for Helping Me. I understood the solution.