React Material UI CardHeader title overflow with dots

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How can I properly add dots the the title in my Cardheader if it exceeds the parents width (Card width). So far I have done this:

  card: {
    width: 275,
    display: "flex"
  },

  overflowWithDots: {
    textOverflow: 'ellipsis',
    whiteSpace: 'nowrap',
    overflow: 'hidden',
    width: '100px'
  }

  <Card className={classes.card}>
    <CardHeader
       title={
         <Typography gutterBottom variant="h6" component="h4" className={classes.overflowWithDots}>
        {movie.title}
        </Typography>
       }
   />

This works in a way, but I have to tell the class to have a width of 100px until it adds the dots. I need to add the dots if it exceeds the parents width.

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3 Answers

Problem

As I understand it you are limiting the size of the Card, in this case, you are not being able to place the ellipsis due to the way the CardHeader is rendered in the html.

The CardHeader component is rendered with a "root" element and a "content" element. See below:

CardHeader rendered

Typography has a built-in prop to adding dots noWrap. For the noWrap property to work correctly, we have the following approaches.

Solution 1

CardHeader's default behavior is to use flex. If you don't need it use flex:

...

cardHeader: {
  display: "block",
  overflow: "hidden"
}

...

<CardHeader
  className={classes.cardHeader} 
  title={
        <Typography noWrap gutterBottom variant="h6" component="h4">
           A world wide web - the revolution
        </Typography>
        }
/>
...

Solution 2

If you need to keep CardHeader with flex behavior, in this case, the overflow needs to be applied to the root and content. To reach the elements use the CardHeader classes property passing the generated class to the content prop. 

...

cardHeaderRoot: {
  overflow: "hidden"
},
cardHeaderContent: {
  overflow: "hidden"
}

...

<CardHeader
  classes={{
           root: classes.cardHeaderRoot,
           content: classes.cardHeaderContent
         }}
  title={
        <Typography noWrap gutterBottom variant="h6" component="h4">
           A world wide web - the revolution
        </Typography>
        }
/>

...


Here's an example in the sandbox.

Edit Button


Atention

Be aware that by modifying the default behavior of how components are rendered, some side effects may occur in your entire component tree.

Anyway

If you still have any problems let us know.

user_120421210

Although this solution works, if you are using mui v5, this is how you can do it using the sx prop described here. You can set the .MuiCardHeader-content style and titleTypographyProps prop to style the title. I added an action button and subheader as an extra example.

import React from "react";
import { Card, CardHeader, IconButton } from "@mui/material";
import { MoreVert as MoreVertIcon } from "@mui/icons-material";

const SimpleCard = () => (
  <Card sx={{ width: "275px", display: "flex" }}>
    <CardHeader
      sx={{
        display: "flex",
        overflow: "hidden",
        "& .MuiCardHeader-content": {
          overflow: "hidden"
        }
      }}
      title={"A very long title coooooooooooooool"}
      titleTypographyProps={{ noWrap: true }}
      subheader={"ps long subheader cooooooooooooool"}
      subheaderTypographyProps={{ noWrap: true }}
      action={
        <IconButton>
          <MoreVertIcon />
        </IconButton>
      }
    />
  </Card>
);

export default SimpleCard;

Here's the sandbox to mess around with.

user_139460810

Typography has a built-in prop to adding dots. You can simply add noWrap prop to Typography. It will add dots in header text and according to the parent component width. 

<Card className={classes.card}>
  <CardHeader
    title={
      <Typography gutterBottom noWrap variant="h6" component="h4">
        {movie.title}
      </Typography>
    }
  />
/>
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