- From: fantasai via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:57:11 +0000
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The spec writes > For the ellipsis value implementations must hide characters and atomic inline-level elements at the end edge of the line as necessary to fit the ellipsis, and place the ellipsis immediately adjacent to the end edge of the remaining inline content. I think the “end edge of the line” is very clearly _not_ about the DOM order of characters. As @tantek says, the clipping is visual only. There were in fact very long discussions about this in the CSSWG, and we resolved very clearly to have this behavior. Altogether the `text-overflow` property is supposed to be a paint-time effect, not a layout-time effect. This was not only because it is easier to implement, but because the effect is more consistent. As for multi-line ellipsis, the text that is clipped is on later lines, and line-breaking is already logical, so there is no conflict with expectations there: later text on later lines is elided. -- GitHub Notification of comment by fantasai Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2125#issuecomment-356971335 using your GitHub account
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