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line-clamp

# April 27, 2018 By Geoff Graham

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.

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Line Clampin’ (Truncating Multiple Line Text)

# May 7, 2013 By Chris Coyier

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.

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line-clamp truncation

Truncate String with Ellipsis

# February 18, 2011 By Chris Coyier

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;
}

See the Pen Basic Overflow Ellipsis by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

Note the fixed width in use here. The gist is that the element needs some kind of determinate width, which you have to be particularly careful about with flexobx:

See the Pen Thing you gotta know about flexbox by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

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