Setting the width of inline elements

Question

You can set the width of inline elements like , and , but you won’t notice any eff

Answer 1

a. Width of inline elements are ignored.

b. Actually you can apply width to element if set display: inline-block; but to see results you also should apply overflow: hidden;.

To have all benefits of inline and block types you can use follow snippet:

display: inline-block; width: 50%; // or px, em, etc. overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;

In this case you can manage width and have text ellipsis feature.