Comments on: Truncated text

By: Marko

Marko — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:11:45 +0000

I can confirm mrben’s problem in FF1.0 on Mac.

By: DG

DG — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 07:42:49 +0000

It seems to make resizing the browser (in my case Mozilla 1.7.12) slow and somewhat jerky. The extra text doesn’t appear straight away either.

By: Richard Rutter

Richard Rutter — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:22:45 +0000

Nice one. But to finish it off you really need an ellipsis at the end of the truncated text.

By: Patrick Fitzgerald

Patrick Fitzgerald — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:20:36 +0000

Cool stuff! How about adding a control to “untruncate” the text? I developed an interesting method to do so: http://barelyfitz.com/projects/truncate/

By: sil

sil — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:32:16 +0000

jepp: agreed.
resiak: their technique doesn’t rely on tableness, and it’s pure CSS. Neat, and I’ve linked it from the truncated-text article; it relies on you being prepared to specify the line height, though.

By: Jepp

Jepp — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:08:03 +0000

resiak: I believe in this case it would make sense for those tables to, well, use table tags.

By: resiak

resiak — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:55:10 +0000

WFM in Galeon.

last.fm do something similar in their lists: see http://www.last.fm/user/wjt , for instance. They appear to use tables (ick!), but it might be worth studying that.

By: sil

sil — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:17:05 +0000

mrben: WFM in both Linux and Windows FF?

By: mrben

mrben — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:35:10 +0000

Erm - it doesn’t work until you refresh the window (in FF at least). If you resize then the boxes get bigger, but then if you hit Refresh they go back to 1 line.