CSS text-overflow in a table cell?

Question

I want to use CSS text-overflow in a table cell, such that if the text is too long to fit on one line, it will clip with an ellipsis instead of wrapping to mult

Answer 1

It seems that if you specify table-layout: fixed; on the table element, then your styles for td should take effect. This will also affect how the cells are sized, though.

Sitepoint discusses the table-layout methods a little here: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/tableformatting