LGTM2 On Monday, September 21, 2026 at 11:51:32 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
> 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/0c41567f-0abf-42b0-bd58-3809824afd09n%40chromium.org.
