Some content in an element may fall outside the element's rendering
box for a number of reasons (negative margins, absolute positioning,
content exceeding the width/height set for an element, etc.) In
cases where this occurs, the 'overflow' (set to "hidden" or "scroll"
for this property to have an effect), and 'clip' properties define
what content will be visible.
If text is too long for the overflow/clipping area and the content is to
be visually clipped, this property allows the clipped content to be visually
represented by the string "..." (called an "ellipsis") in the non-clipped area.
This property only applies to text overflow content in the flow of text
(horizontal for western text.) To explicitly force an overflow situation,
content must be in either a NOBR element or an element with the
'white-space' property set to "nowrap" - otherwise, only a natural
non-breaking word existing at the clipping boundary will induce this
property to have an ellipsis effect (if the property is thus set.)
The clipped content can still be selected by selecting the ellipsis.
When selected, the ellipsis will disappear and be visually replaced
by as much of the the text content as is possible to display in the
clipping area.
Allowed Values
clip
[IE6]
Type: Explicit
Description:
Clips the viewable content to the area defined by the rendering box,
the 'overflow', and 'clip' property values.
ellipsis
[IE6]
Type: Explicit
Description:
If text content will overflow, display the string "..." in the
visibly-rendered region for content outside the visible area.