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<h1 id="the-wonders-of-text-ellipsis">The Wonders of Text Ellipsis</h1>
<p>2016-11-15</p>
<p>A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it&#8217;s parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout).</p>
<p>This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input fields on form elements. For example, the following input placeholder will be cutoff from the user&#8217;s view:</p>
<p><a href="https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/pen/OgpzyY/">CodePen live example</a></p>
<p>Luckily, 3 simple CSS parameters can fix this.</p>
<pre><code>input::placeholder {
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    white-space: nowrap;
}
</code></pre>
<p>This allows the user to understand there is more content cut out from their current view. It&#8217;s not ideal to ever have content overflowing outside of the parent container, but if you need to the best workaround is to use text-overflow.</p>
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