title | description | ms.date | ms.custom |
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Text-overlow ellipsis not working in Internet Explorer 11 |
Describes a display problem in Internet Explorer 11. This issue occurs when you use the text-overlow ellipsis attribute. |
04/26/2020 |
sap:Development and Website Issues |
This article provides the information to solve the issue that the text-overlow: ellipsis
attribute only applies to the first line of an HTML document in Internet Explorer.
Original product version: Internet Explorer 11
Original KB number: 3056585
When you apply the text-overlow: ellipsis
CSS attribute to multiple lines in an HTML document, and then you view the webpage in Internet Explorer, you discover that the attribute has been applied only to the first line.
This is a known issue in Internet Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11.
The ellipsis is displayed for both lines when the page is used with document modes Internet Explorer 5 and Internet Explorer 7.
The following sample webpage demonstrates the issue:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div
{
width: 100px;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
</div>
</body>
</html>
In this situation, you see output that resembles the following:
1111111111111...
111111111111111
You expect to see output that resembles the following:
1111111111111...
1111111111111...