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JavaScript & HTML DOM Reference Manual

Overview

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HTML DOM Style textOverflow property

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Examples

Change textOverflow properties:

document.getElementById("myDIV").style.textOverflow="ellipsis";

Definition and Usage

textOverflow attribute specifies when the text overflows the containing element, what should happen.

Browser Support

All major browsers support textOverflow property.

grammar

Back textOverflow properties:

object .style.textOverflow

Setting textOverflow properties:

object .style.textOverflow="clip|ellipsis|string|initial|inherit"

Property Value

值	描述
clip	默认值。裁剪文本。
ellipsis	使用省略符号（"..."）来代表被裁剪的文本。
string	使用给定的字符串来代表被裁剪的文本。
initial	设置该属性为它的默认值。请参阅 initial 。
inherit	从父元素继承该属性。请参阅 inherit 。

technical details

Defaults:	clip
return value	String representing the text-overflow property element.
CSS version	CSS3

related articles

CSS Reference: text-overflow property

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