Bootstrap 3 truncate long text inside rows of a table in a responsive way

I did it this way (you need to add a class text to <td> and put the text between a <span>:

HTML

<td class="text"><span>looooooong teeeeeeeeext</span></td>

SASS

.table td.text {
    max-width: 177px;
    span {
        white-space: nowrap;
        overflow: hidden;
        text-overflow: ellipsis;
        display: inline-block;
        max-width: 100%;
    }
}

CSS equivalent

.table td.text {
    max-width: 177px;
}
.table td.text span {
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    display: inline-block;
    max-width: 100%;
}

And it will still be mobile responsive (forget it with layout=fixed) and will keep the original behaviour.

PS: Of course 177px is a custom size (put whatever you need).

You need to use table-layout:fixed in order for CSS ellipsis to work on the table cells.

.table {
  table-layout:fixed;
}

.table td {
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

demo: http://bootply.com/9njmoY2CmS

This is what I achieved, but had to set width, and it cannot be percentual.

.trunc{
  width:250px; 
  white-space: nowrap; 
  overflow: hidden; 
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
table tr td {
padding: 5px
}
table tr td {
background: salmon
}
table tr td:first-child {
background: lightsalmon
}

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<table>
      
      <tr>
        <td>Quisque dignissim ante in tincidunt gravida. Maecenas lectus turpis</td>
      <td>
         <div class="trunc">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
         </div>
    </td>
        </tr>
      </table>

or this: http://collaboradev.com/2015/03/28/responsive-css-truncate-and-ellipsis/

I'm using bootstrap.
I used css parameters.

.table {
  table-layout:fixed;
}

.table td {
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

and bootstrap grid system parameters, like this.

<th class="col-sm-2">Name</th>

<td class="col-sm-2">hoge</td>