It’s no secret that MDN rolled out a new design back in March. It’s gorgeous! And there are some sweet CSS-y gems in it that are fun to look at. One of those gems is how card components handle truncated …
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 …
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 the text being a certain number of lines, you can create stronger and …
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;
}Note the …