css overflow - only 1 line of text

Question

I have div with the following css style:

width:335px; float:left; overflow:hidden; padding-left:5px;

When I insert, into that div, a long line of text, it's breaking to a new line and displays all the text. What I want is to have only one line of text that will not line-break. When the text is long, I want this overflowing text to disappear.

I was thinking about setting the height but it seems to be wrong.

Maybe if I add height that is the same as the font, it should work and not cause any problems in different browsers?

How can I do that?

Answer 1

If you want to restrict it to one line, use white-space: nowrap; on the div.

Answer 2

If you want to indicate that there's still more content available in that div, you may probably want to show the "ellipsis":

text-overflow: ellipsis;

This should be in addition to white-space: nowrap; suggested by Septnuits.

Also, make sure you checkout this thread to handle this in Firefox.

Answer 3

You can use this css code:

text-overflow: ellipsis; 
overflow: hidden; 
white-space: nowrap;

The text-overflow property in CSS deals with situations where text is clipped when it overflows the element's box. It can be clipped (i.e. cut off, hidden), display an ellipsis ('…', Unicode Range Value U+2026).

Note that text-overflow only occurs when the container's overflow property has the value hidden, scroll or auto and white-space: nowrap;.

Text overflow can only happen on block or inline-block level elements, because the element needs to have a width in order to be overflow-ed. The overflow happens in the direction as determined by the direction property or related attributes.

Answer 4

the best code for UX and UI is

white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
overflow: hidden;
display: inherit;

Answer 5

width:200px;
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
overflow: hidden;

Define width also to set overflow in one line

Answer 6

I was able to achieve this by using the webkit-line-clamp and the following css:

div {
  display: -webkit-box;
  -webkit-line-clamp: 1;
  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
  overflow: hidden;
}

Answer 7

if addition please, if you have a long text please you can use this css code bellow;

text-overflow: ellipsis;
overflow: visible;
white-space: nowrap;

make the whole line text visible.

Answer 8

I had the same issue and I solved it by using:

display: inline-block;

on the div in question.