Question

I was looking to implement the following design to the HTML/CSS.

I have got problems with the text overflow in the column. Currently the table column width is given in the percentage format so that the column width will change depending on the screen size, but there is a minimum width too. In the first text column, you can see that the content is extending and produced a second line due to the long size. How to avoid this problem using the text overflow? Or any other solution? Also, you can see that a set of icons are appearing in the same row when the mouse hover takes place. At this time, the text below the icons should hide and it should be shortened as shown in the design. Can you advise me to get a solution to this problem? I have tried text-overflow: ellipsis. But I’m getting problem when the screen width changes. Since I don’t have a minimum width due to the variable column width, how to cut short the text in this field? Also in the hover case ??

Please let me know if you want to know anything else.

Answer 1

If you don’t want the text to split in multiple rows, add white-space:nowrap rule.
Then, set a max-width for the cell.

For the icons, position them in absolute to the right, with a z-index higher then the text. You’ll have to add a relative position to the containing cell also.
To keep them visible over text, i’ve added a background color (and some left padding).

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EDIT: Fix for Mozilla

Mozilla seems to ignore position:relative; for td elements.
To fix it, you’ve to wrap the td contents inside another div, and apply this style

.tables td {
    font-weight: 400;
    font-size: 13px;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #E1E1E1;
    line-height: 38px;
    text-align: right;
    white-space: nowrap;
    max-width: 200px; /* just an example */
}

.tables td > div {
    overflow: hidden;
    width:100%;
    position: relative;
}

.linkFunctions {
    display: none;
    padding-top: 14px;
    position: absolute;
    right: 0;
    z-index: 999;
    background-color: #FFF9DC;
    padding-left: 3px;
    width: 100%;
    max-width: 120px; /* just an example */
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    overflow: hidden;
}