Truncate long text

Written byPhuoc Nguyen

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CSS

Created

15 Mar, 2021

I'm pretty sure that it's one of well-known CSS snippets to truncate long text:

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

However, it truncates the origin text to a single line. If you want to truncate to a given number of lines, then the `-webkit-line-clamp` property comes in handy.

The CSS declaration below limits the number of lines to 3:

.truncate {
    display: -webkit-box;
    -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
    -webkit-line-clamp: 2;
    overflow: hidden;
}

Note that the `-webkit-line-clamp` property only works when we have `display: -webkit-box` and `-webkit-box-orient: vertical` declarations.

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