ellipsis

I've adapted jQuery UI MultiSelect Widget so that the text would show all selected labels, but if too many elements are selected to display, the text would be trimmed and ellipsed. I've done it so: .ui-multiselect .selected-text { display: block; max-width: 190px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; } The only things that I don't like in that solution is that I had to set display: block to the element (span). Without it, the width parameter was ignored and the span expanded to the text size. Is it possible to get ellipsis to work with inline elements (without

I tried using : text-overflow ellipsis feature in CSS3 (but doesn't support multi-line) several jquery plugins like dotdotdot ( http://dotdotdot.frebsite.nl/ ) jquery autoellipsis ( http://pvdspek.github.com/jquery.autoellipsis/ ). All of these tools work quite well but if content has images the calculated height for truncation with dotdotdot or jquery.autoellipsis is wrong. I was just wondering if someone has a great idea for dealing with this (maybe some server-side processing on ?), Thanks by advance :-). Use your own ellipsis positioning offsets by setting a fixed height for the multi-line

Let's say my columns in a table are id , name , description , and phone . The description column is 1-255 characters, but the id is only max 3 characters. I'd like the columns to be appropriately sized rather than each column being the same size. And I'd like the description column to overflow to an ellipsis when the window is too small to fit the contents in its entirety. table-layout:fixed; is the standard way to make text-overflow: ellipsis; work, but it resizes all the columns to the same size. I'd prefer to keep the widths auto rather than fixed. Can you help? Here's my jsFiddle : http:/

I am looking for a universal way to change a value of an argument inside ellipsis and pass it to the other function. I know an ugly solution for that, which looks like this: test <- function(...) { a <- list(...) a[['y']] <- 2 return(eval(parse(text=paste0('identical(',paste(unlist(a),collapse=','),')')))) } test(x=1,y=1) Ideally I would like to avoid converting ... to a list and then using eval(). Is it possible to somehow refer to an argument inside ... by name and change it's value? You do have to unpack ... to manipulate its contents. The ugly bit here, really, is your last line, which can

I have a twitter feed on a website I run. However, it gets cut off on small screens. I have a bar tall enough for 1 line of text in which I have the latest tweet. I want the tweet to ellipsize or fade out at the end if it is too long. But on hover, I want the text to slide slowly to the left, thus exposing the hidden part. This effect is used on the iPod classic when you highlight a song that has a title that is wider than the screen. (I hope you understand what I'm going for.) I'm just curious how I would go about implementing something like this? How can I force the text to stay on one line?