CSS truncating SELECT OPTION with Ellipses

[CoderLee]

Hi CSS_TRICKS,

Can anyone here tell me how to truncate an option inside of a select box, , or however you wish to refer to it, so that it cuts off the text overflow with an ellipses? I have found a lot of was to do that for the selected option but I need to edit the list of options that drop down. I can’t seem to get anything to work this in Chrome. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[JeroenR]

I don’t think you can achieve this by using CSS. You should look for where the dropdown is being populated and maybe do a calculation on the number of characters or something. You can also do it by javascript like this: https://codepen.io/jeroenreijs/pen/eEmoYr

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