Re: Displaying an ellipsis on the last visible line of a block that overflows vertically

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> This is closely related (nearly identical, actually) to the proposals
> for block-overflow.  We should merge them.
>
> Some value/keyword causes an inline ellipsis/string to be generated at
> the end of the last line.  Another one causes the last line to be
> replaced by the ellipsis/string.  Both (+ plain text-overflow) are
> exposed via an ::overflow or ::ellipsis or whatever pseudo-element
> which can be styled in a limited fashion.
>

OK. I suggest adding a "replace-line" optional keyword to
text-overflow/text-overflow-last which replaces the entire line with the
ellipsis if an ellipsis is going to be displayed.

I'm not all that excited about implementing a psuedo-element though.

Rob
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