Pure CSS multiline text with ellipsis

gistfile1.scss

/* http://martinwolf.org/2013/01/29/pure-css-multiline-text-with-ellipsis/ */

$font-size: 26px;
$line-height: 1.4;
$lines-to-show: 3;

h2 {
  display: block; /* Fallback for non-webkit */
  display: -webkit-box;
  max-width: 400px;
  height: $font-size*$line-height*$lines-to-show; /* Fallback for non-webkit */
  margin: 0 auto;
  font-size: $font-size;
  line-height: $line-height;
  -webkit-line-clamp: $lines-to-show;
  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

we can't show ellipsis(...) in firefox and ie11.

solankepl 👍

Cant make to work in FF and IE. Spend days figuring out that there is no css solution for this one..

@kogakure Seems like -webkit-box is a old 2009 version of flex. Replacing it with flex seems to break this implementation. The reason for trying to make it flex is not just due to keeping up with the spec, but I would like to have align-items: center; that works in flex but not -webkit-box. In summary, I need to set the div to a certain height and if the text is short, it is vertically centered; if it's long, it fills the space and ellipsis when text overflows.

There are some solutions and most important one of them is written in pure-css and it is cross-browser.
http://hackingui.com/front-end/a-pure-css-solution-for-multiline-text-truncation/