Question

I want to use text-overflow property on a link. I work for a paragraph but not for a link.

Here is the HTML code

<div>
  <ul>
    <li>
        <p>the text is too long</p>
    </li>   
    <li>
         <a href="javascript:alert('test')">the link is too long</a>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

Here is the css code :

a {
  white-space: nowrap;
  width:50px; 
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;

}
p {
  white-space: nowrap;
  width:50px; 
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

See example on http://jsfiddle.net/corinnekm/LLVDB/

Thanks a lot for your help.

Answer 1

an <a> tag is an inline element, you can only apply ellipsis to a block element, try a { display: block; } and it works