5.2 Overflow Ellipsis: the text-overflow property

Chapter 5 - Resizing & Overflow - 5.2 Overflow Ellipsis: the text-overflow property

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text-overflow (ahem, font)

text-overflow - ellipsis
'text-overflow:ellipsis' renders U+2026 when text is overflowing.

text-overflow-001

text-overflow - clip - the text inline content overflows will be broken
Test checks that the inline content that overflows will be clipped. Characters may be only partially rendered when text-overflow set clip

text-overflow-002

text-overflow - ellipsis - the broken textual content instead of ellipsis
Test checks that an ellipsis (...) is shown instead of overflowing textual content

text-overflow-003

text-overflow - inherit - inherit clip value of parent's text-overflow property
Test checks that text-overflow inherits the parent' clip value when text-overflow set inherit

text-overflow-004

text-overflow - inherit - inherit ellipsis value of parent's text-overflow property
Test checks that text-overflow inherits the parent' ellipsis value when text-overflow set inherit

text-overflow-005 (ahem)

text-overflow reflow
Text overflow should disappear when the container becomes large enough. This test is targetted at bug #14952 in Servo's incremental reflow engine.