I need an overflow to truncate from the left, with ellipses

Question

Briefly, I have a field where the rightmost digits are most significant. (Naturally, this field comes from our affiliates\' systems, based on their primary keys, so the left

Answer 1

Try to use this trick:

HTML

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CSS

.ellipsis {
    overflow: hidden;
    width: 60px;
    direction: rtl; 
    margin-left: 15px;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

.ellipsis:after {
    position: absolute;
    left: 0px;
    content: "...";
}​

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