The final result is focusable both via keyboard navigation and touch interface.
Now we just need to add a selector to the rule targeting the wrapper so it triggers also on ntainer:focus-within > span, We use the value of 0 to allow the browser to keep the tabbing order in accordance with source order. The way to do this is to add the tabindex="0" attribute to every relevant element. We need to make the elements focusable, but there is currently no way to make this happen with CSS (and probably there won't be for a while). We still haven't addressed the issue with keyboard and touchscreen users. In the meantime, styling the hover state so that it looks good in both cases is advisable. Maybe Container Queries will allow addressing this problem. The default behaviour of inline-flex or inline-grid does what we want.Ī drawback here is that every element that has this behaviour applied will have the :hover effect, even if it fits perfectly well within its container. Why inline-flex? We could use inline-block, but that positions the element along the baseline, changing the parent's line-height, and we'd need to start playing with vertical-align. Since the parent is still locked at width: 10rem it does not change dimensions, and the overflow simply spills out.
#Css span text overflow ellipsis full#
When it is, we change its display to inline-flex, which forces its layout to expand and wrap the full contents. The inner wrapper is now responsible for hiding the overflow… until it's hovered. the behaviour on the very first example). container to use the default of overflow: visible (i.e. If you look carefully you'll notice that we moved the overflow and text-overflow properties to the inner wrapper, instead of keeping them on. Let's add one more wrapper element (in this case a but it's not important) to create our own on-hover behaviour. We could pull in a big tooltip Javascript library to bypass most of the concerns above. What else can we do? Redesign? Nah! Let's keep at this on-hover idea. Here's the same example, with mistreated title attributes try to read those on your phone. It is meant to provide "advisory information related to the element"
The "hover" behaviour doesn't work without an appropriate pointing device.
Indeed, the browser will display a tooltip when hovering over such an element. One suggestion that usually comes up is "just place the full content in the title attribute it shows up on hover". We could re-evaluate and redesign instead, let's dig deeper. But for other scenarios, especially those where it's not possible to navigate to the full data view, this is Not Good Enough. For instance, a listing of emails can display the first few words of each message body and truncates the rest with ellipsis. This really doesn't solve much unless the whole content is not very interesting. I can't event select the whole text, copy, and paste it somewhere else to read it. So, we had a problem before, we have a different problem now! It looks visually better, but it conveys even less information. Let's look at a simple example a flex container with three items: Set this on a container with a specific width and overflow: hidden, and any text content will be trimmed with an elegant ellipsis character "…" In despair, the "what if we just trim it with dot-dot-dot" suggestion comes up.Įnter text-overflow: ellipsis. Especially with smaller screens and user-generated data, a single long name or label can introduce awkward wrapping or the tragicomedy of horizontal scrolling. Adding a piece of information to your interface should be an exercise in weighing costs and benefits.īut what to do when you must display more data? If the design does not accommodate it, you can break the whole layout. Uncritically adding more content is in general a bad approach: it increases the cognitive load of users, creates more intimidating interfaces for newcomers, makes performance worse, and many other negative effects. "Must show all fields" and "needs more columns" are typical requests that make UX designers and front-end developers die a little on the inside. One of the curses of building "enterprise applications" is the usual scenario of dealing with interfaces with too much data in them.
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