HTML CSS examples for CSS Property:overflow
Css td overflow with spans having variable length
<html> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <style id="compiled-css" type="text/css"> table {<!-- w w w. j a va2s.co m--> width:401px; border-spacing:0px; border-collapse:collapse; table-layout:fixed; } th,td { border:2px solid Chartreuse; white-space:nowrap; } th:first-child, td:first-child { width:351px; overflow:hidden; } td:last-child { width:51px; } .hide-overflow { background-color:yellow; } span.hide-overflow { white-space:nowrap; } </style> </head> <body> <table> <tbody> <tr> <th>Lor</th> <th>Lor</th> </tr> <tr> <td> <span>Lore</span> <span class="hide-overflow">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</span> </td> <td>Lor</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span>Lorem ipsu</span> <span class="hide-overflow">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi ullamcorper molestie lacus sed fermentum. Aliquam erat </span> </td> <td>Lor</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </body> </html>