Re: [css3-ui] text-overflow and multicol

On 05/06/2011 11:47 PM, Håkon Wium Lie wrote:
> Also sprach fantasai:
>
>   >  During a discussion about text-overflow, someone asked what happens
>   >  with multi-col. It occurred to me that it might be handy to ellipse
>   >  lines that overflow the column rather than clipping them halfway
>   >  through the column gap.
>
> It seems reasonable to allow this. But it's not specific to multicol
> elements, is it? Formatters should also be allowed to do this for
> normal elements, I believe.

For inline content that is a direct descendant of a block container
element, they do if 'text-overflow: ellipsis' is specified.

~fantasai

Received on Saturday, 7 May 2011 12:31:11 UTC