The Text Truncation and Clamping pattern
Explore how CSS text truncation and clamping patterns control overflow and keep interfaces clean by limiting text lines. Understand the use of CSS properties like overflow and -webkit-line-clamp, learn strengths and tradeoffs, avoid common pitfalls, and discover alternate approaches to manage text effectively in responsive designs.
The Text Truncation and Clamping pattern help maintain layout integrity when dealing with unpredictable or variable-length content. They prevent text overflow from breaking designs or pushing other elements out of view, and they support clean, readable interfaces by limiting text to a controlled number of lines.
How the pattern works
This pattern uses a combination of CSS properties like overflow, text-overflow, white-space, and ...