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Long words breaking in the middle of div using [...] [duplicate]

I have a big filename that I'm cropping using css text-overflow: ellipsis.
<style>
#fileName {
width: 100px;
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
<div id="fileName"> This is the big name of my file.txt</div>
So I have this output
This is the bi...
But I want to preserve the file extension and have something like this
This is the... le.txt
Is it possible only using CSS?
Since my files are always txt, I've tried to use text-overflow: string, but it looks like it only works on Firefox:
text-overflow: '*.txt';

Here is a clean CSS solution using the data-* attribute and two ::after pseudo-elements. I also added an optional hover and show all text (the #fileName::after pseudo element needs to be removed when the full text is shown).
Example 1
#fileName {
position: relative;
width: 100px;
}
#fileName p {
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
overflow: hidden;
}
#fileName:after {
content: attr(data-filetype);
position: absolute;
left: 100%;
top: 0;
}
/*Show on hover*/
#fileName:hover {
width: auto
}
#fileName:hover:after {
display: none;
}
<div id="fileName" data-filetype="txt">
<p>This is the big name of my file.txt</p>
</div>
Going further — hiding the appended filetype when the filename is short
The #fileName p::after is given a background color that matches the background of the text. This covers the ".txt" when the filenames are short and therefore not cut off with overflow: hidden.
Note the padding-right: 22px, this pushes the ".txt" beyond the ellipsis.
Refer to examples 2 and 3 below for different methods with different browser support for each. It doesn't seem to be possible to hide the ".txt" happily in all browsers.
Example 2
Browser Compatibility: Chrome and Firefox.
The #fileName p::after is given a background color that matches the background of the text. This covers the ".txt" when the filenames are short and therefore not cut off with overflow: hidden.
Note the padding-right on each of the ::after pseudo-elements. padding-right: 22px pushes the ".txt" beyond the ellipsis and padding-right: 100% gives the covering pseudo-element its width. The padding-right: 100% doesn't work with Edge or IE 11.
#fileName {
position: relative;
width: 122px;
}
#fileName::after {
content: attr(data-filetype);
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
}
#fileName p {
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
overflow: hidden;
padding-right: 22px;
}
#fileName p::after {
content: '';
background: #FFF;
position: relative;
padding-right: 100%;
z-index: 1;
}
/*Show on hover*/
#fileName:hover {
width: auto;
}
/*Hide .txt on hover*/
#fileName:hover::after {
display: none;
}
<div id="fileName" data-filetype=".txt">
<p>This is the big name of my file.txt</p>
</div>
<div id="fileName" data-filetype=".txt">
<p>Short.txt</p>
</div>
Example 3
Browser Compatibility: IE 11, Edge and Chrome.
The content: ... unholy amount of ... on #fileName p::after gives it width. This, along with display: inline-block, is currently the only method that works on the Edge browser / IE 11 as well as Chrome. The display: inline-block breaks this method on Firefox and the .txt is not covered on short filenames.
#fileName {
position: relative;
width: 122px;
}
#fileName::after {
content: attr(data-filetype);
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
padding-right: 10px; /*Fixes Edge Browser*/
}
#fileName p {
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
padding-right: 22px;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
#fileName p::after {
content: '.........................................................................................................................';/*Fixes Edge Browser*/
background: #FFF;
position: relative;
display: inline-block;/*Fixes Edge Browser*/
z-index: 1;
color: #FFF;
}
/*Show on hover*/
#fileName:hover {
width: auto
}
#fileName:hover::after {
display: none;
}
<div id="fileName" data-filetype=".txt">
<p>This is the big name of my file.txt</p>
</div>
<div id="fileName" data-filetype=".txt">
<p>Short.txt</p>
</div>

This is the best I can come up with... It might be worthwhile trying to clean up the leading edge of the second span...
CSS
#fileName span {
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
display:inline-block;
}
#fileName span:first-child {
width: 100px;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
#fileName span + span {
width: 30px;
direction:rtl;
text-align:right;
}
HTML
<div id="fileName">
<span>This is the big name of my file.txt</span>
<span>This is the big name of my file.txt</span>
</div>
http://jsfiddle.net/c8everqm/1/

Here is another suggestion that worked well for me:
<div style="width:100%;border:1px solid green;display:inline-flex;flex-wrap:nowrap;">
<div style="flex: 0 1 content;text-overflow: ellipsis;overflow:hidden;white-space:nowrap;"> Her comes very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long </div>
<div style="flex: 1 0 content;white-space:nowrap;"> but flexible line</div>
</div>

Here's a solution that uses flexbox, and is dynamic, (e.g. works when the user resizes the browser window). Disadvantage is that the text after the ellipsis has a fixed size, so you can't put the ellipsis in the exact middle of the text.
CSS
.middleEllipsis {
margin: 10px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
justify-content: flex-start;
}
.start {
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
flex-shrink: 1;
}
.end {
white-space: nowrap;
flex-basis: content;
flex-grow: 0;
flex-shrink: 0;
}
HTML
<div class="middleEllipsis">
<div class="start">This is a really long file name, really long really long really long</div><div class="end">file name.txt</div>
</div>
Resize the right-hand side boxes on jsfiddle to see the effect:
https://jsfiddle.net/L9sy4dwa/1/
If you're willing to abuse direction: rtl, you can even get the ellipsis right in the middle of the text with some small changes to your CSS:
.middleEllipsis {
margin: 10px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
justify-content: flex-start;
}
.middleEllipsis > .start {
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
flex-shrink: 1;
}
.middleEllipsis > .end {
white-space: nowrap;
flex-basis: content;
flex-grow: 0;
flex-shrink: 1;
align: right;
overflow: hidden;
direction: rtl;
}
You can see an animated gif of what this looks like on https://i.stack.imgur.com/CgW24.gif.
Here's a jsfiddle showing this approach:
https://jsfiddle.net/b8seyre3/

I tried some of those CSS approach but the problem is if the text is short, you will get "short text short text" instead of "short text".
So I went with CSS + JS approach.
JS (I edited Jeremy Friesen's to fix some cases):
const shrinkString = (originStr, maxChars, trailingCharCount) => {
let shrinkedStr = originStr;
const shrinkedLength = maxChars - trailingCharCount - 3;
if (originStr.length > shrinkedLength) {
const front = originStr.substr(0, shrinkedLength);
const mid = '...';
const end = originStr.substr(-trailingCharCount);
shrinkedStr = front + mid + end;
}
return shrinkedStr;
}
HTML:
<div>
<h5>{shrinkString("can be very long of short text", 50, 15)} </h5>
</div>
CSS:
div {
width: 200px;
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
I hope it helps. Sorry for the format. This is my first answer on SO.

JavaScript option:
var cropWithExtension = function(value, maxChars, trailingCharCount) {
var result = value;
if(value.length > maxChars){
var front = value.substr(0, value.length - (maxChars - trailingCharCount - 3));
var mid = "...";
var end = value.substr(-trailingCharCount);
result = front + mid + end;
}
return result;
}
var trimmedValue = cropWithExtension("This is the big file.txt", 21, 6);

Input ---This is a very very very very very big file.txt
To truncate the above file name use the below javascript
Output ---This is a very...big file.txt
var selectedFileName = getItemSelected();//Input
$scope.referenceFileName =getItemSelected();
var len = selectedFileName.length;
if(len > 30){
selectedFileName = selectedFileName.substr(0,15)+'... '+selectedFileName.substr(len-15,15);
}
$scope.fileName = selectedFileName;
**
Note:
**Pass the $scope.referenceFileName in the json---back end
$scope.fileName this would be---front end

The accept answer is good. Although for Browser Compatibility, you could do the detection for truncate or not. Make the whole CSS conditional.
const wrap = document.getElementById('filenameText');
if (wrap.offsetWidth >= wrap.scrollWidth) {
this.truncation = false;
}
<div
:data-filetype="data-filetype"
:class="[truncation && 'truncateFilenamClass']"
>

I found out the css solutions quite buggy and hard to maintain, since you need to add attributes or elements to separate text.
I built a quite straight forward Javascript that handles it. Send your text and max length of the text and you get the text truncated in the middle back.
const truncateMiddle = (text, maxCharacters) => {
const txtLength = text.length; // Length of the incoming text
const txtLengthHalf = maxCharacters ? Math.round(maxCharacters / 2) : Math.round(txtLength / 2); // set max txtHalfLength
return text.substring(0, (txtLengthHalf -1)).trim() + '...' + text.substring((txtLength - txtLengthHalf) + 2, txtLength).trim() //Return the string
}
truncateMiddle('Once opon a time there was a little bunny', 10);
Returns: Once...nny
Cons? Sure, it need more functionality to be responsive.

CSS is good, but I think you must do it by JavaScript for more accurate results.
Why?
Because, with JS You can control number of first and last texts of words.
This is just 2 lines of JavaScript code to crop string as per you define:-
let fileName=document.getElementById('fileName')
fileName.innerHTML=fileName.innerHTML.substring(1, 10)+'...'+fileName.innerHTML.slice(-2)
<div id="fileName"> This is the big name of my file.txt</div>
also, you can choose first n words, instead of first few letter/characters with JS, as per you want.
whose JS code is this:-
let fileName=document.getElementById('fileName')
let Words=fileName.innerHTML.split(" ")
let i=0;
fileName.innerHTML=''
Words.forEach(e => {
i++
if(i<5)
fileName.innerHTML+=e+' '
});
fileName.innerHTML+='...'
<div id="fileName"> This is the big name of my file.txt</div>

For a solution that works with liquid layouts I came up with something that uses flexbox. Obvious drawback is that three elements are needed. Obvious advantage: If there is enough room everything will be shown. Depending on circumstances an additional white-space rule for the paragraph might be needed as well as some min-width for the first span.
<p><span>Long text goes in here except for the</span><span>very end</span></p>
p {display:flex}
p span:first-child {flex-shrink:1; text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden}
ADDENDUM: Strictly speaking, the flex-shrink is not even necessary because it is the default behaviour of the flex-items anyway. This is not so in IE10, however. Prefixing is necessary, too in this case.

Animating height property :: HTML + CSS + JavaScript

I have noticed this 'issue' lately when trying some stuff.
Say I want to create a drop-down menu or an accordion.
This is my HTML:
<div class="wrapper" onclick="toggle()">
I want to be animated!
<div class="content">
Was I revealed in a timely fashion?
</div>
</div>
Stylesheets:
.wrapper {
background: red;
color: white;
height: auto;
padding: 12px;
transition: 2s height;
}
.content {
display: none;
}
.content.visible {
display: block;
}
JavaScript:
function toggle () {
var content = document.getElementsByClassName('content')[0];
var test = content.classList.contains('visible');
test ? content.classList.remove('visible') :
content.classList.add('visible');
}
I am trying to achieve a nice, smooth animation when we toggle the state of the content. Obviously this does not work. Anyone can explain to me why it does not work and how to fix it? Many thanks.
Link to the JSFiddle.

First things first, some CSS properties CANNOT be transitioned, display is one of them, additionally only discrete values can be transitioned, so height: auto cannot as well.
In your case the problem is with height: auto, while there are a few hacks for doing this, if you are just showing and hiding stuff, why not add, and use jQuery's toggle instead?
$(".content").toggle("slow");
jsFiddle
--EDIT (without jQuery)--
Because it's the auto that is giving us problems, we can use javascript to replace auto with a value in pixels and then use the css transition normally, if your content doesn't have a scroll, we can easily take that value from the scrollHeight property:
function toggle () {
var content = document.getElementsByClassName('content')[0];
var test = content.classList.contains('visible');
console.log(test);
if (test) {
content.classList.remove('visible')
content.style.height = "0px";
} else {
content.classList.add('visible');
content.style.height = content.scrollHeight + "px";
}
}
Css
.wrapper {
background: red;
color: white;
height: auto;
padding: 12px;
transition: 2s height;
}
.content {
height: 0px;
display: block;
transition: 2s height;
overflow: hidden;
} /* totally removed .content.visible */
jsFiddle

How to position two elements centered on top of each other?

The problem:
I have a form with a button underneath it to submit (post) from data with jQuery ajax(). I want for the button to be replaced with a spinner (animated png) for the duration of server ajax call. But such a trivial task is impossible in css to do right.
What i have tried:
I have placed button and image inside a bootstrap row. Ox ajax call I have set button display to none and img display to block. But because this two are not of the same size makes the whole page flicker, breaks the positioning of other elements and so on.
Another idea was to try to place both elements on top of each other with absolute positioning. But, stupid as css is I cannot center it on the middle of the row.
Is there a way to position both elements on top of each other so I can control their visibility?
Please bear in mind that I cannot used absolute position in pixel, because this is a web page and I do not not how wide the browser will be, image can change in the future, text in the button can change in the future, all this things affect absolute size.
If there is another solution to my problem which would prevent the page from jumping up and down it would also be great.
EDIT
Link to one of fiddle experiments:
https://jsfiddle.net/ofb2qdt8/
.button {
position: relative;
margin: auto;
height: 50px;
width: 30px;
background: blue;
z-index: 1;
display: block;
}
.spinner {
position: relative;
margin: auto;
height: 30px;
width: 50px;
background:red;
z-index: 2;
}
This renders second element underneath on screen. Not on different z layer.
Experiment 2:
https://jsfiddle.net/ofb2qdt8/
.button {
position: absolute;
margin: auto;
height: 50px;
width: 30px;
background: blue;
z-index: 1;
display: block;
}
.spinner {
position: absolute;
margin: auto;
height: 30px;
width: 50px;
background:red;
z-index: 2;
}
This does not center both elements, and they are pushed to the top of the containing div. The element with less height should be centered.

Check this working demo: https://jsfiddle.net/ofb2qdt8/3/
Add in a few lines of jquery and update your css.
Position your loading div according to button div's position, width, height using jquery.
*Click the button to see loading div, and try to play the margin of the button to any pixel.
###JQUERY
$(document).ready(function () {
$('.c2').each(function () {
$(this).css({
'width': $(this).siblings('.c1').outerWidth(),
'height': $(this).siblings('.c1').outerHeight(),
'top': $(this).siblings('.c1').offset().top,
'left': $(this).siblings('.c1').offset().left
});
});
$('.c2').on('click', function () {
$(this).hide(0);
});
});
###CSS
.c1 {
margin: 100px auto;
width: 100px;
text-align: center;
padding: 5px 10px;
background: blue;
z-index: 1;
}
.c2 {
position: fixed;
text-align: center;
background: red;
z-index: 2;
cursor: pointer;
}

Rough, ready and untested:
HTML
<div>
<input type='submit' />
<img src="spinneyIMage.gif" />
</div>
CSS
div{ text-align: center; }
div img{ display: none; }
jQuery
$('submit').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$(this).hide().next().show();
});
After the Ajax call completes reverse the above jQuery.

As I haven't been able to find a working solution I have reverted to my first idea which I discarded at first. Albeit with a little twist.
HTML
<div class="row>
<div id="container-button" class="col-xs-12>
<button id="button" onclick="button_OnClick(e)">submit form via ajax</button>
<img src="img/spinner.png" sytle="display: none" />
</div>
</div>
JS
function btnContact_OnClick() {
// show the soinner and hide the button
showSpinner();
$.ajax(
{
type: 'POST',
url: "someurl.com/target",
data: $("#form").serialize(),
dataType: "json",
complete: function() { hideSpinner();},
success: onAjaxSuccess,
error : onAjaxError
});
}
function hideSpinner() {
$("#spinner").hide();
$("#button").show();
// make container height non-fixed and content adjustable again
$("#container-button").height('auto');
}
function showSpinner() {
// THis is the trick !!!
// Make the container fixed height as it was before displaying spinner, so it does not change with content (spinner is not the same height as button
$("#container-button").height($("#container-button").height());
$("#button").hide();
$("#spinner").show();
}
This is not the perfect solution but the best I could make.
Drawbacks:
it is not clean, you have to use javasript to fix what is css layout
problem
it still causes a little flicker
the height of container while displaying spinner is dependant on button, this may cause clipping if spinner is too big

How to trigger the layout to change?

I've a sticked element which gets the top-alignment from current scroll-offset. Problem is, that the layout is not "retriggerd" if the space from it is free. So there stays a ghost-gap where the sticked element was...
http://fiddle.jshell.net/pPc4V/
The markup is pretty simple:
...
as well as the js:
var $win = $(this);
var sticked = document.querySelector('a.sticked');
$win.on('scroll', function () {
var scrollTop = $win.scrollTop();
sticked.style.top = scrollTop + 'px';
// $win.resize();
});
...and the css looks good so far:
a {
display: inline-block;
width: 90px;
height: 90px;
background: deepskyblue;
}
.sticked {
position: relative;
top: 0;
left: 0;
background: tomato;
}
I tried to trigger the resize-event on scroll (as you see above uncommented), but no success! Any ideas, how to retrigger the layout so that the free-gap is filled with the next floated element?
Update
To clarify what I mean I made a simple image-timelime:
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3

The issue is that you are setting position fixed on an element which is displayed inline. That will cause that space to occur. I have redid your jsFiddle with proper alignment.
To fix it, I added the class "stuck" only when the document's scrollTop position is greater than the scrollTop position of your target element.
jsFiddle: http://fiddle.jshell.net/pPc4V/44/
HMTL:
<div id="grid">
etc...
</div>
CSS:
#grid {
height:1000px;
overflow:hidden;
float:left
}
#grid > a {
display: inline-block;
width: 90px;
height: 90px;
background: deepskyblue;
}
.stuck {
position: fixed;
background: navy !important;
}
JS:
$(window).on('scroll', function () {
var $doc = $(document),
parentElement = $('#grid'),
childToGetStuck = parentElement.find('a:nth-child(5)');
if ($doc.scrollTop() > childToGetStuck.scrollTop()) {
childToGetStuck.addClass('stuck');
//console.log($('.stuck').scrollTop())
} else {
childToGetStuck.removeClass('stuck');
}
});

How to get this kind of web page effect

The little popup window appears in the middle of the original page.
The original page is covered by grey shade if not by the popup window.
The underneath original page can still be scrolled up and down.

Follow these steps:
1) Create this CSS rule:
.overlay {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
opacity: 0.5;
background: #666;
filter: alpha(opacity=50); /* opacity for IE browsers */
}
2) Add this code to your jQuery:
$("body").prepend("<div class='overlay'></div>");
3) When done, remove it like this:
$(".overlay").remove();
Didn't test this, but it should work (maybe with very minor modifications). This is one way, if you prefer doing it by yourself. You can, however, use existing solutions such as Twitter's Bootstrap lib which is cool, and I recommend it.
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
Regards.

You could use the JQueryUI dialog widget http://jqueryui.com/dialog/#modal

This is easy enough to achieve with some simple CSS...
The overlay (the grey background) is fixed in place and covers everything below:
#overlay {
display: none;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-color: #000;
opacity: 0;
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
z-index: 2; // above content
}
The "dialog" itself is similar in style, but smaller:
#dialog {
display: none;
position: fixed;
width: 500px;
height: 250px;
background-color: #fff;
z-index: 3; // above 'overlay'
}
The top and left attributes can be calculated with simple JavaScript, so that the dialog can be positioned in the center of the browser:
positionDialog = function() {
if (typeof window.innerHeight != 'undefined') {
dialog.top = parseInt(window.innerHeight / 2) - dialog.height;
dialog.left = parseInt(window.innerWidth / 2) - dialog.height;
}
}
And also upon window resize:
$(window).resize(function() {
positionDialog();
}
Notice how the CSS sets these DIVs to display: none. They are hidden until called, which is done by setting them to display: block.
These days, I find that it's much simpler and more robust to rely on jQuery UI's excellent dialog widget.

It's called a light box. There's a way that you can do it using only CSS:
http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2007/08/22/create-a-lightbox-effect-only-with-css-no-javascript-needed/
The key for darkening the background is the CSS opacity property of a box that you cover the background with, which you can set a black background and use this CSS for transparency:
-moz-opacity: 0.8;
opacity:.80;

You could take a look at the modal included in Twitter Bootstrap: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#modals