LGTM1 On Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 10:03:46 PM UTC-7 Chromestatus wrote:
> *Contact emails* > [email protected] > > *Explainer* > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/text-overflow#string > > *Specification* > https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overflow-4/#text-overflow > > *Summary* > Adds a <string> value to the text-overflow property. This allows web > authors to specify a custom string (e.g., "(more)") to indicate that text > has been clipped. This provides more design flexibility and can be used to > create more user-friendly and context-aware overflow indicators. > > *Blink component* > Blink>CSS > <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3ECSS%22> > > *Web Feature ID* > custom-ellipses <https://webstatus.dev/features/custom-ellipses> > > *Motivation* > Chromium's text-overflow implementation only supports the clip and > ellipsis keywords, so authors who want a different truncation indicator > must truncate the text themselves in JavaScript or overlay a positioned > pseudo-element on the end of the line. Supporting the specified <string> > value lets the browser truncate the text and render the author's chosen > indicator together. > > *Initial public proposal* > *No information provided* > > *Search tags* > text-overflow <http:///features#tags:text-overflow> > > *TAG review* > *No information provided* > > *TAG review status* > Not applicable > > *Goals for experimentation* > None > > *Risks* > > > *Interoperability and Compatibility* > *No information provided* > > *Gecko*: Shipped/Shipping ( > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312156) Some of the new WPTs > are broken because of two cases. - Clipping the rendering of the ellipsis > itself if there is insufficient space for the ellipsis. > https://www.w3.org/TR/css-overflow-4/#ellipsing-details - Suppressing > line breaks as Ruby. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12557 > > *WebKit*: Shipped/Shipping (https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/72631) The > PR has been merged but it's not released yet. > > *Web developers*: No signals > > *Other signals*: > > *WebView application risks* > > Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that > it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? > None. This is a support CSS value; it does not deprecate or change the > behavior of any existing API, so it poses no WebView compatibility risk. > > > *Debuggability* > *No information provided* > > *Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, > Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?* > Yes > > *Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests > <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>?* > Yes > `text-overflow-string-*` files in > https://wpt.fyi/results/css?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=text-overflow-string > > Note that there is tentatives for "[css-text-3] Discarding Line Breaks > Adjacent to Ambiguous Characters". > https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5017 > > *Flag name on about://flags* > enable-experimental-web-platform-features > > *Finch feature name* > TextOverflowString > > *Rollout plan* > Will ship enabled for all users > > *Requires code in //chrome?* > False > > *Tracking bug* > https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41492459 > > *Estimated milestones* > Shipping on desktop 156 > Shipping on Android 156 > Shipping on WebView 156 > > *Anticipated spec changes* > > Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or > interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues > in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may > introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of > the API in a non-backward-compatible way). > *No information provided* > > *Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status* > https://chromestatus.com/feature/6294595288825856?gate=5598631104217088 > > *Links to previous Intent discussions* > Intent to Prototype: > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/6a8d82fa.f0bac957.7b6f1.0e10.GAE%40google.com > > > This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status > <https://chromestatus.com>. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/d69bf7f5-8ca3-45dc-847e-8ba1fa1a7899n%40chromium.org.
