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Embracing Asymmetrical Design

I’ll never forget one of Karen McGrane’s great lessons to the world: truncation is not a content strategy. The idea is that just clipping off text programmatically is a sledgehammer, and avoids the kind of real thinking and planning that …

Shared by Chris Coyier on Sep 20, 2021

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Using Flexbox and text ellipsis together

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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 …

Shared by Chris Coyier on Jul 21, 2020

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Truncate String with Ellipsis

All the following are required, so the text must be in a single straight line that overflows a box where that overflow is hidden.

.truncate {
  width: 250px;
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

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Chris Coyier on Feb 18, 2011 (Updated on Sep 1, 2021)