- From: blidblid via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 19:06:54 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
An API with fractional accuracy would solve all my problems!
Of course, a bit more background:
I'm building native apps for healthcare: journal systems, lab-orders, theater management, etc. The one thing those views have in common is that they have a lot of text. And the doctors/nurses want that text dense. We must use ```text-overflow: ellipsis``` for that density.
To display ellipsized content, we've developed an Angular directive that opens an overlay. The gist:
```
// in onMouseenter
if (eventTarget.scrollWidth > eventTarget.offsetWidth ) {
this.overlay.open();
}
```
It looks like something most IDEs have in their sidenavs. The problem is that since we can't always detect the overflow, sometimes there's ellipsized content that doesn't trigger the overlay.
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