How are the pages being built (server side)? It may be possible to cut the
text down before it gets to the CSS/JS stage.

In Rails you can just call truncate on the text and pass the number of
characters:
<%= truncate(item.description, :length=>52) %>

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M001743

Sunny


On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Roman Land <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I made this nice fiddle with BP to demonstrate what I mean:
> http://www.jsfiddle.net/3fGs3/1/
>
> My questions is, what is the best approach with this kind of "content
> boxes" that house different types of texts, these are part of my site where
> there's a list of these boxes with content.
>
> The behavior I am looking for is for CSS to handle text that is too long in
> a way that pleases the eye :)
> For example I would expect overflowing text to be terminated with follwoing
> "..." before the line ends..
>
> Since this is a CSS related list, I think you are the best authority on the
> matter.
>
> Thanks
> Roman
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