You are correct that Firefox does not implement support for text-overflow. My suggestion would be to check the height and width of the title elements and, if necessary, apply a regular overflow property.
Jeremy R. Geerdes Effective website design & development Des Moines, IA For more information or a project quote: http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com [email protected] If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan Church! On Apr 21, 2010, at 1:59 PM, screntropy wrote: > Hello! I am using a dynamic feed control on my website and am having > some issues. I am hosting my own css file (just a small tweaking of > the original). I have put the feed on the right side in a narrow-ish > column and my text is getting cut off. > > I honestly thought it was perfect until someone looked at it in > Firefox. Apparently, Firefox does not support the text-overflow > property and my text gets cut off. Is there a way to get around this? > I have done some pretty extensive research on this and can't find a > solution. > > SO, I decided to get rid of the text-overflow and display the whole > item title. I fiddled around with the white-space properties and > finally found the right one. > > BUT now, my problem is that if my title is too big (more than 2 > lines), the snippet text gets cut off by my list items. I have tried > tweaking so many properties, but I just can't get it to work (without > making it so long that it looks ridiculous when I have a short title). > Is there a way to only display the first two lines? > > So now I have two problems, both halting normal work flow: > 1. text-overflow:ellipsis issues in Firefox cutting off my text > 2. some titles are too long and cut off my entry text. the feed does > not expand automatically to adjust to the new size. > > Do you have any suggestions? I will take a solution to either of my > problems... I just need this to start looking normal in all > browsers. > > Thanks so much for your help! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google AJAX APIs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en.
