IE10 text-overflow ellipsis not working

Question

I have an <a> tag in html, and I want it to be ellipsis. But when I add a <div> inside the <a> tag, 'text-overflow' doesn't work.

HTML:

<div class=boxed>
  <h1>text-overflow Attribute Sample</h1>
    <a href="#" class="caption">
      <!----><div style="width:100px;height:20px;border: 1px solid red"></div>
      Each box (div element) below contains the following text:
    </a>
</div>

CSS:

div.boxed {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    border: 1px solid blue;
    font: 14px Times New Roman, serif;
    overflow:hidden;
    'position:relative;
}
a.caption {
    overflow:hidden;
    white-space: nowrap;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    display:block;
    text-decoration:none;
    float:left;
    text-align:left;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/nPzsy/

After removing the <div>, the 'text-overflow' works again.

Answer 1

First of all, div is a block level element and a is an inline level element, so you cannot use a div inside an anchor tag b...so you should use any other inline tag (like small , span etc)

Secondly, if you have to use a div inside div, you can wrap your text in another tag like this ....

<div class=boxed>
     <h1>text-overflow Attribute Sample</h1>
     <div class="caption">
         <!----><div style=" width:100px;height:20px;border: 1px solid red"></div>
         <span class='textTrunc'>Each box (div element) below contains the following text:</span>
  </div>

and css of class textTrunc:

.textTrunc{  
    overflow:hidden;  
    white-space: nowrap;  
    text-overflow: ellipsis;  
    display:block;  
}