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Xsmael
Xsmael

Reputation: 3932

Bootstrap 3 truncate long text inside rows of a table in a responsive way

I'm using bootstrap 3 tables, when i put large text in the table it gets wrapped on several lines, but i want it to be truncated with three dots at the end in a responsive way without messing up the layout of the table (i found some solutions but with unpleasant effects).

Is that possible ? how ?

PS: any solution is welcome, but i would like it to be just HTML/CSS if it's possible.

Upvotes: 49

Views: 110142

Answers (4)

Luciano Fantuzzi
Luciano Fantuzzi

Reputation: 1026

I did it this way (you need to add a class text to <td> and put the text between a <span>:

HTML

<td class="text"><span>looooooong teeeeeeeeext</span></td>

SASS

.table td.text {
    max-width: 177px;
    span {
        white-space: nowrap;
        overflow: hidden;
        text-overflow: ellipsis;
        display: inline-block;
        max-width: 100%;
    }
}

CSS equivalent

.table td.text {
    max-width: 177px;
}
.table td.text span {
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    display: inline-block;
    max-width: 100%;
}

And it will still be mobile responsive (forget it with layout=fixed) and will keep the original behaviour.

PS: Of course 177px is a custom size (put whatever you need).

Upvotes: 36

Yusuke Okui
Yusuke Okui

Reputation: 43

I'm using bootstrap.
I used css parameters.

.table {
  table-layout:fixed;
}

.table td {
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

and bootstrap grid system parameters, like this.

<th class="col-sm-2">Name</th>

<td class="col-sm-2">hoge</td>

Upvotes: 2

egidiocs
egidiocs

Reputation: 2847

This is what I achieved, but had to set width, and it cannot be percentual.

.trunc{
  width:250px; 
  white-space: nowrap; 
  overflow: hidden; 
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
table tr td {
padding: 5px
}
table tr td {
background: salmon
}
table tr td:first-child {
background: lightsalmon
}
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<table>
      
      <tr>
        <td>Quisque dignissim ante in tincidunt gravida. Maecenas lectus turpis</td>
      <td>
         <div class="trunc">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
         </div>
    </td>
        </tr>
      </table>

or this: http://collaboradev.com/2015/03/28/responsive-css-truncate-and-ellipsis/

Upvotes: 2

Carol Skelly
Carol Skelly

Reputation: 362430

You need to use table-layout:fixed in order for CSS ellipsis to work on the table cells.

.table {
  table-layout:fixed;
}

.table td {
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

demo: http://bootply.com/9njmoY2CmS

Upvotes: 62

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