Simple CSS ONLY single and multi-line text truncation!

Опубликовано: 20 Февраль 2026
на канале: Brian Treese
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Are you running into scenarios where you have a single line of text that can get too long and you want to truncate it with CSS?

How about multiple lines that you want to constrain to a known number of lines and then truncate with CSS?

Well, in this video I’ll show you how to do both using the text-overflow and line-clamp properties. Let’s check it out.

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🔗 Demo Link:
Single Line: https://codepen.io/brianmtreese/pen/v...
Multiline: https://codepen.io/brianmtreese/pen/J...

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📖 Chapters:
0:00 – Introduction
0:28 – Truncating a single line of text with the text-overflow property
1:31 – Properly handling text-overflow within a flex container
2:03 – Truncating multiple lines of text with the line-clamp property

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