It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
You can truncate a single line of text with an ellipsis (…) fairly easily with text-overflow and a few friends. But, as you might expect, that truncation happens at the end of the line of text. What if you want to truncate content in the middle?
Leonardo Faria details good use cases for this, like in an operating system window listing files. The line of text is a file name and a file extension. When that line truncates, it … Read article “Using Flexbox and text ellipsis together”
You know those times you get a horizontal scrollbar when accidentally placing an element off the right edge of the browser window? It might be a menu that slides in or the like. Sometimes we to overflow-x: hidden; on the body to fix that, but that can sometimes wreck stuff like position: sticky;.
Well, you know how if you place an element off the left edge of a browser window, it doesn’t do that? That’s “data loss” and just … Read article “A “new direction” in the struggle against rightward scrolling”
“Data Loss” is a funny term. My brain thinks of it like packet loss on the way from the server to your browser, resulting in missing content in files. Perhaps it is that on some level, but in CSS parlance, it has to do with the overflow property. Too much content for sized container + hidden overflow = data loss.
But it isn’t only overflow that can cause this “data loss.” Alignment can cause data loss too. Imagine flexbox or … Read article “Overflow And Data Loss In CSS”
The overscroll-behavior property in CSS controls whether an element will use “scroll chaining” or not. You have likely experienced this behavior before and perhaps took it for granted that scrolling works like this on the web! If you are inside of an element that has it’s own scrolling (say it’s vertical) and you have scrolled down to the bottom of it, then by default, the next parent element up (maybe the page itself) starts to scroll in that direction. If … Read article “overscroll-behavior”
News to me! There is a spec for it and Firefox says they intend to ship it. It’s just like display: block; only:
It always establishes a new block formatting context for its contents.
.group {
display: flow-root;
}Meaning: you don’t have to use clearfix hacks. There is a bit more to it though. Fiona Chan has a mini-talk all about block formatting context. I think it affects z-index and transforms in some cases too. Anybody?
I suspect Nicole … Read article “display: flow-root;”
There are times when a really long string of text can overflow the container of a layout.
For example:
URL’s don’t typically have spaces in them, so they are often culprits.Here’s a big snippet with all the CSS players involved:
.dont-break-out {
/* These are technically the same, but use both */
overflow-wrap: break-word;
word-wrap: break-word;
-ms-word-break: break-all;
/* This is the dangerous one in WebKit, as it breaks things wherever */
word-break: break-all;
/* Instead use this non-standard 