This is the background-image attempt.
Note that relatively short links (try with 20em in dd, or try with "l.html" as short link) will /not/ show the image ellipsis or the text ellipsis due to the mechanism
- no float drop - r.p. upwardly - overflow:hidden.
and long links /will/ show the ellipsis due to the mechanism
- float drop - r.p. upwardly
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I do not know anything about javascript. When I don't provide a script example, that should not read and does not imply that I question the fact that it belongs to be solved server sided or via javascript.
I just like thinking about if there are CSS solutions. Often these solutions are far away from being perfect. Same to the /awkward/ browser fixes I tried to find in some posts to this list the last year.
I think I'll try to spend more of my free time in gardening. Thanks for the audience.
Ingo
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dd{
width: 10em; /* constrain width try 20em */
height: 1em; /* constrain height */
line-height:1em; /* to be adjusted */
overflow: hidden; /* hide excess */
position:relative; /* Fix IE missing overflow bug of r.p. span */
background: yellow; /* for demo */
}dd a {
float:left;
white-space: nowrap; /* prevents Opera's wrapping of the link and destroying the r.p. */
}
dd span.ellipsis { float: right; /* shall drop when the link is too long */ position:relative; /* move after page flow is done */ margin-top:-1em; /* adjust */ z-index:1; /* higher layer */ background: red url(ellipsis.png); /* red for debugging */ width:25px; /* any width will match */ }
<dt>Name of the resource</dt> <dd> <a href="http://longcrazyurl.net/blah/de/blah/de/blah.html"; title="longcrazyurl.net/blah/de/blah/de/blah.html"> longcrazyurl.net/blah/de/blah/de/blah.html </a> <span class="ellipsis"> </span> </dd>
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