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-o-text-overflow property

Browser support:

		9

Specifies how to handle the overflowed area of text.

Note: The -o-text-overflow property is supported in Opera from version 9.

Use the -o-text-overflow property together with the overflow style property (with a value different from visible) and the white-space style propery (with a value of nowrap).

In Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Safari, use the text-overflow property instead of the -o-text-overflow property.

JavaScript page for this property: OTextOverflow. You can find other example(s) there.

Possible values:

One of the following values:

clip

Clips the overflowing text content.

ellipsis

(...) is shown for overflowing text content.

Default: clip.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the text-overflow and -o-text-overflow properties:

<head>
    <style>
        .example {
            text-overflow: ellipsis;
            -o-text-overflow: ellipsis;
            overflow: hidden;
            width: 120px;
            background: #99C6CD;
            white-space:nowrap;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="example" nowrap="nowrap">
        Overflowed text is to be visually clipped.
    </div>
</body>