Truncate String with Ellipsis

truncate-string.md

via: css-tricks

.truncate {
  width: 250px;
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

This site shows you how to get it working in FF as well: http://mattsnider.com/css-string-truncation-with-ellipsis

A bunch of more techniques here, including multi-line ellipsis.