There is a thread on the www-style list that discusses this point: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jan/0687.html
On Jan 16, 2012, at 11:41 AM, David Hyatt wrote: > I have the same question. Can you explain why text-overflow is insufficient? > I think in this case it would be acceptable behavior to just make > text-overflow behave the way you want, i.e., no longer showing the ellipsis > while the user is actively typing in the focused control seems like fine > behavior even for text-overflow. > > dave > ([email protected]) > > On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote: > >> Is this specced anywhere? Do we need a new CSS property? Could we just make >> text-overflow work on text inputs? >> >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Jon Lee <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi WebKit! >> >> I wanted to let you know that we would like to add a new CSS property >> -webkit-control-text-overflow. It is a non-inheritable property that can >> only be applied to single-line text inputs. Acceptable values are the same >> as text-overflow, i.e. "clip" and "ellipsis". >> >> When the input is set with the "ellipsis" value, both the placeholder and >> inner text value of the input render with an ellipsis if the text overflows >> and the input is not focused. When the input becomes focused, the >> placeholder or text value renders clipped, as before. >> >> Although this is a small enhancement to text controls, we think this is >> especially useful for authors developing on the mac platform, since the >> analog native widgets behave similarly. >> >> The bug that tracks this is: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76118 >> >> Jon >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >
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