CSS3 - Text

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CSS3 contained several extra features, which is added later on.

  • text-overflow
  • word-wrap
  • word-break

There are following most commonly used property in CSS3 −

Sr.No. Value & Description
1

text-align-last

Used to align the last line of the text
2

text-emphasis

Used to emphasis text and color
3

text-overflow

used to determines how overflowed content that is not displayed is signaled to users
4

word-break

Used to break the line based on word
5

word-wrap

Used to break the line and wrap onto next line

Text-overflow

The text-overflow property determines how overflowed content that is not displayed is signaled to users. the sample example of text overflow is shown as follows −

Live Demo 
<html>
   <head>
      <style>
         p.text1 {
            white-space: nowrap; 
            width: 500px; 
            border: 1px solid #000000;
            overflow: hidden;
            text-overflow: clip;
         }
         p.text2 {
            white-space: nowrap; 
            width: 500px; 
            border: 1px solid #000000;
            overflow: hidden;
            text-overflow: ellipsis;
         }
      </style>
   </head>

   <body>
   
      <b>Original Text:</b>
   
      <p>
         Howcodex originated from the idea that there exists a class of 
         readers who respond better to online content and prefer to learn new 
         skills at their own pace from the comforts of their drawing rooms.
      </p>
      
      <b>Text overflow:clip:</b>
   
      <p class = "text1">
         Howcodex originated from the idea that there exists
         a class of readers who respond better to online content and prefer 
         to learn new skills at their own pace from the comforts of their 
         drawing rooms.
      </p>
      
      <b>Text overflow:ellipsis</b>
   
      <p class = "text2">
         Howcodex originated from the idea that there exists
         a class of readers who respond better to online content and 
         prefer to learn new skills at their own pace from the comforts 
         of their drawing rooms.
      </p>
      
   </body>
</html>

It will produce the following result −

CSS3 Word Breaking

Used to break the line, following code shows the sample code of word breaking.

Live Demo 
<html>
   <head>
      <style>
         p.text1 {
            width: 140px; 
            border: 1px solid #000000;
            word-break: keep-all;
         }
         p.text2 {
            width: 140px; 
            border: 1px solid #000000;
            word-break: break-all;
         }
      </style>
   </head>

   <body>
   
      <b>line break at hyphens:</b>
      <p class = "text1">
         Howcodex originated from the idea that there exists a 
         class of readers who respond better to online content and prefer 
         to learn new skills at their own pace from the comforts of 
         their drawing rooms.
      </p>
      
      <b>line break at any character</b>
   
      <p class = "text2">
         Howcodex originated from the idea that there exists a 
         class of readers who respond better to online content and 
         prefer to learn new skills at their own pace from the comforts 
         of their drawing rooms.
      </p>
      
   </body>
</html>

It will produce the following result −

CSS word wrapping

Word wrapping is used to break the line and wrap onto next line.the following code will have sample syntax −

p {
   word-wrap: break-word;
}
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