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text-overflow

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Topic: Text Handling
Unit title: text-overflow
Categories: Property
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Explanation: The property that determines how text that overflows the boundaries of its container is handled. It can clip the text or display an ellipsis (...) to indicate that more content exists but isn't visible, which helps manage long text strings in limited spaces.

Browser compatibility:
  • The chrome browser supports this feature starting from version 1
  • The edge browser supports this feature starting from version 12
  • The firefox browser supports this feature starting from version 7
  • The safari browser supports this feature starting from version 1.3
Availability: