text-overflow
The text-overflow CSS property sets how hidden overflow content is signaled to users. It can be clipped, display an ellipsis (‘ … ‘), or display a custom string.
Try it
The text-overflow property doesn’t force an overflow to occur. To make text overflow its container, you have to set other CSS properties: overflow and white-space . For example:
overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap;
The text-overflow property only affects content that is overflowing a block container element in its inline progression direction (not text overflowing at the bottom of a box, for example).
Syntax
text-overflow: clip; text-overflow: ellipsis ellipsis; text-overflow: ellipsis " [..]"; /* Global values */ text-overflow: inherit; text-overflow: initial; text-overflow: revert; text-overflow: revert-layer; text-overflow: unset;
The text-overflow property may be specified using one or two values. If one value is given, it specifies overflow behavior for the end of the line (the right end for left-to-right text, the left end for right-to-left text). If two values are given, the first specifies overflow behavior for the left end of the line, and the second specifies it for the right end of the line.
Values
The default for this property. This keyword value will truncate the text at the limit of the content area, therefore the truncation can happen in the middle of a character. To clip at the transition between characters you can specify text-overflow as an empty string, if that is supported in your target browsers: text-overflow: »; .
This keyword value will display an ellipsis ( ‘…’ , U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS ) to represent clipped text. The ellipsis is displayed inside the content area, decreasing the amount of text displayed. If there is not enough space to display the ellipsis, it is clipped.
The to be used to represent clipped text. The string is displayed inside the content area, shortening the size of the displayed text. If there is not enough space to display the string itself, it is clipped.
This keyword clips the overflowing inline content and applies a fade-out effect near the edge of the line box with complete transparency at the edge.
This function clips the overflowing inline content and applies a fade-out effect near the edge of the line box with complete transparency at the edge.
Formal definition
Formal syntax
CSS Internet Explorer: make text fill space
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How to get text input box to fill remaining space?
I want the button to remain the normal size and be right-aligned, and
the edit box to automatically take up the remaining width of the
container.
I suspect I’m missing something obvious, but how can I do this with
CSS?
«Click here. » is clueless. Just an example, maybe, but it’s a _bad_
example, and people actually use such button texts, which are
(literally) clueless, i.e. give no clue of the meaning and effect of the
button.
A text input field without a label is clueless, too.
It is not obvious at all how the text field and the button relate to
each other. If they do, why not use ? Then you have a _different_ styling problem, and perhaps one
that is worth addressing.
Besides, such a button is normally quite pointless, since type=»button»only works (if it works at all) via scripting, and there
isn’t any scripting in your snippet.
So how about starting a from a good and real example, presented by
providing the URL?
I want the button to remain the normal size and be right-aligned, and
the edit box to automatically take up the remaining width of the
container.
Really? Even if the canvas is ten meters wide?
What happens when CSS is off? The width will be then set by browser
defaults, which are rather small (typically, about 20 characters). So
maybe you should first choose a suitable size=». » value; it’s
inconvenient guesswork, but it’s better to make an intelligent guess
that to let browsers default.
We miss the definition of what «this» consists of.
To begin with, when the button element appears after the text input
element, it will appear below it, though right-aligned. If you want them
to appear on the same line visually, you need to put the button element
before the text input element.
You haven’t actually made _any_ attempt to set the text input field
width, in HTML or in CSS, in your snipped. The 100% width is set for the
container element, for which it has no effect, since the default
rendering is to make a
There does not seem to be any direct CSS way of achieving what you want
(except using table-related properties that are not supported by IE),
but it’s trivial in HTML, with one simple piece of CSS:
However, what would be the point? If the field needs as much space as
possible, why waste space by putting a button on its right? And why not
make it a textarea if it may need a lot of space?
Please post a URL, not a snippet of code. One doesn’t need a URL of a fully formed page to ask how to do
something. His illustrative snippet is short and clear. I’m awarding you
one cluelessness point of your own.
«Click here. » is clueless. Just an example, maybe, but it’s a _bad_
example, and people actually use such button texts, which are
(literally) clueless, i.e. give no clue of the meaning and effect of the
button. Another cluelessness point for Jukka, who doesn’t understand it’s
perfectly OK for an example to be generic and stripped-down, and that
all that’s required of it is that it be sufficiently illustrative for
the question being asked.
A third cluelessness point for Jukka, to whom it doesn’t occur that the
OP almost certainly intends to have a label in the real page but just
didn’t bother included it in the example, where it wasn’t necessary for
the purposes of his question.
It is not obvious at all how the text field and the button relate to
each other. If they do, why not use ? Then you have a _different_ styling problem, and perhaps one
that is worth addressing.
It’s an example. The clarity of their working relationship in the final
product is extraneous here and in fact might even detract from the
example’s ability to illustrate the OP’s question. A fourth cluelessness
point for Jukka.
Besides, such a button is normally quite pointless, since type=»button»only works (if it works at all) via scripting, and there
isn’t any scripting in your snippet.
Cluelessness point number five. Jukka still hasn’t figured out that the
example isn’t intended to be the whole page.
Probably because there isn’t anything else on the page that would have
anything to do with getting an answer to the OP’s technical question.
>I want the button to remain the normal size and be right-aligned, and
the edit box to automatically take up the remaining width of the
container.
Really? Even if the canvas is ten meters wide? If 1em = 20cm on that particular canvas, why not? Cluelessness point
number six.
What happens when CSS is off? The width will be then set by browser
defaults, which are rather small (typically, about 20 characters). So
maybe you should first choose a suitable size=». » value; it’s
inconvenient guesswork, but it’s better to make an intelligent guess
that to let browsers default.
We miss the definition of what «this» consists of. Attention deficit disorder acting up? Even if you lose track of
pronominal antecedents that easily, you can always go back and reread.
To begin with, when the button element appears after the text input
element, it will appear below it, though right-aligned. If you want them
to appear on the same line visually, you need to put the button element
before the text input element.
You haven’t actually made _any_ attempt to set the text input field
width, in HTML or in CSS, in your snipped. The 100% width is set for the
container element, for which it has no effect, since the default
rendering is to make a
There does not seem to be any direct CSS way of achieving what you want
(except using table-related properties that are not supported by IE),
but it’s trivial in HTML, with one simple piece of CSS:
How dare you provide an example without building it into a fully
functional, cluelessness-free page with a URL! What a hypocrite. For
this I’m awarding two more cluelessness points.
>
However, what would be the point? If the field needs as much space as
possible, why waste space by putting a button on its right? And why not
make it a textarea if it may need a lot of space?
One more helpfulness point. Final tally: 8 cluelessness points, 4
helpfulness points. Final cluelessness/helpfulness (CH) quotient for the
posting: 200%.