It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Now that we’ve got cross-browser support for the line-clamp property, I expect we’ll see a lot more of that around the web. And as we start to see it more in use, it’s worth the reminder that: Truncation is not a content strategy.
We should at least offer a way to read that that truncated content, right? Paul Bakaus uses the checkbox hack and some other trickery to add a functional button that does exactly that. … Read article “Multiline truncated text with “show more” button”
Truncating a single line of text if is fairly straightforward. Truncating multiple lines is a bit harder. Using just CSS (no JavaScript or server-side dancing) is nice for the simplicity. It’s gotten a little easier lately since Firefox (since version 68) has started supporting the ultra-bizarre -webkit-line-clamp soup method, which makes browser support for that pretty OK.
There is another way though, which is very clever and something I’d call a bonafide CSS trick. We somehow failed to … Read article “Multi-Line Truncation with Pure CSS”
The max-lines property limits the content of a block to a maximum number of lines before being cut off and can create a line clamping effect when combined with block-overflow. In fact, both properties make up the line-clamp property, which is a shorthand for combining them.… Read article “max-lines”
The block-overflow property truncates text and indicates more content follows by inserting an ellipsis or custom string after a number of lines that is set by the max-lines property.… Read article “block-overflow”
The line-clamp property truncates text at a specific number of lines.
The spec for it is currently an Editor’s Draft, so that means nothing here is set in stone because it’s a work in progress. That said, it’s defined as a shorthand for max-lines and block-overflow, the former of which is noted as at risk of being dropped in the Candidate Recommendation.… Read article “line-clamp”
You want X lines of text. Anything after that, gracefully cut off. That’s “line clamping” and it is a perfectly legit desire. When you can count on text being a certain number of lines, you can create stronger and more reliable grids from the elements that contain that text, as well as achieve some symmetric aesthetic harmony.
There are a couple of ways to get it done, none of them spectacular.… Read article “Line Clampin’ (Truncating Multiple Line Text)”