[whatwg] Missing Feature

[Martin Kutschker]

"Yoeri Van De moortel" <yoerivdm at ultragenda.com> writes on 
Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:28:48 +0200 (METDST):

> 
> I don't know if this is the right place to make suggestions,


It's the right place.


> I want a label that, when it is resized, adds "..." to the end of the
> string. eg. "This is a test" would become "This is a ..." when
> resized.


I understand that with "resized" you mean an element that is clipped.

Clipping is done in layout, so it should be handled by CSS.

So we need a way to tell the layout engine to treat the content of the element as a single line. This can be done with "whitespace: nowrap".

Then we need a way to tell the layout engine to crop the contents. This cannot be done. We could extend the CSS2 oferflow property with a crop "value":

overflow: crop('...')

Beware that cropping is affected by Bidi!

Masi