Sent by Ingo Chao on 3 January 2006 21:09
Storm, Dan wrote:
> In a recent post someone on this list cited the "ext-overflow"
> property with a value of "ellipsis". I went to the W3C material
> on CSS3 and found the following:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514/#text-overflow
>
> text-overflow-mode: clip | ellipsis | ellipsis-word
> text-overflow-ellipsis: string | uri text-overflow:
> text-overflow-mode || text-overflow-ellipsis
>
> In other words, it looks like "text-overflow-ellipsis" is the
> property name and "text-overflow" is the shortcut name. Am I
> wrong?
"This property [text-overflow] is the shorthand for
'text-overflow-mode' and 'text-overflow-ellipsis'.", as your link
says (but isn't this module obsolete? I don't know.)
Then there is "text-overflow" as of IE6's current implementation.
But [1] does not read as if this would be a shorthand.
This "attribute" is a MS-proprietary extension. It will not match
the lines in the module you've cited:
See the 'I didn't like the play'-example in the W3C module.
There is
blockquote { ... text-overflow-mode: ellipsis; ..}
, but this does not work in IE6.
And while this shows an ellipsis in IE6:
blockquote { ... text-overflow: ellipsis; ..}
, applying anything in addition
blockquote { ... text-overflow: ellipsis url(ellipsis.gif); ...}
or
blockquote { ... text-overflow: ellipsis '#'; ...}
does not show anything, text-overflow declaration is dropped and the
text gets hidden in that example by overflow:hidden.
So no, the current IE6 extension is not a shorthand, and I think
it's incompatible with the CSS3 module you have cited.
Do you need this ellipsis? Christian Heilmann had posted a nice
script in the 'long url'-thread [2].
Ingo
[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/textoverflow.asp
[2] http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/57416
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