text-overflow: ellipsis is not working in table

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I have two HTML elements - one is div another is a table. both of them have two elements - div has p and table has td. Both of them have the same style.

Code: 

.container {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
}

p, td {
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
<div class="container" style="width:100px; background-color: red">
  <p width="50px">
    Hello world
  </p>
  <p width="50px">
    Hello world
  </p>
</div>

<table style="background-color: green">
  <tr width="100px">
    <td width="50px">Hello World</td>
    <td width="50px">Hello World</td>
  </tr>
</table>

And their parent has 100px width. Actually, I want them to truncate if their size overflowed. For div, I get my desired output but in table, I do not get the same result. why does this happen? Is it because table has a different default style than div?

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3 Answers

It happens because of the display property in table. You need to give a display: block to make ellipsis work, but it kind of removes how tables should work.

The better thing would be to wrap your td contents inside a div and change your CSS.

Option 2 would be using max-width to your td`.

<td width="50px">
  <div>Hello World</div>
</td>

CSS to:

td>div {
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  width: 50px
}

OR Just add max-width

.container {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
}

p,
td>div,td {
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  max-width: 50px;
}
<div class="container" style="width:100px; background-color: red">
  <p width="50px">
    Hello world
  </p>
  <p width="50px">
    Hello world
  </p>
</div>

<table style="background-color: green">
  <tr width="100px">
    <td width="50px">
      <div>

        Hello World</div>
    </td>
    <td width="50px">
      <div>

        Hello World</div>
    </td>
    <td width="50px">
      Hello World
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

user_26926880

Instead of giving width to tr and td, give width to the table.

table {
  background-color: green;
  table-layout: fixed;
  width: 100px;
}

td {
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Hello World</td>
      <td>Hello World</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

user_101174120

To clip text with an ellipsis when it overflows a table cell, you will need to set the max-width CSS property on each td class for the overflow to work.

.container {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
}

p {
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
td
{
 max-width: 50px;
 overflow: hidden;
 text-overflow: ellipsis;
 white-space: nowrap;
}
<div class="container" style="width:100px; background-color: red">
  <p width="50px">
    Hello world
  </p>
  <p width="50px" >
    Hello world
  </p>
</div>

<table  style="background-color: green">
  <tr>
    <td>Hello World</td>
    <td>Hello World</td>
  </tr>
</table>

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