I have a table in my application that looks like this:
var td = $('#text');
td.append("<div msg style='color:red'>" + "apply ellipsis so it doesn't stretch the td" + "</div>");<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.slim.min.js" integrity="sha256-u7e5khyithlIdTpu22PHhENmPcRdFiHRjhAuHcs05RI=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<style>
table, th, td {
border: 1px solid black;
}
div[msg] {
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
background-color: blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table style="width:20%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th style="width:10%">Month</th>
<th style="width:10%">Savings</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="width:10%" id="text">
January
</td>
<td style="width:10%">
Lorem ipsum dolor.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>As can be seen I am appending a div in one of my td's.
I would hope to be able to add a text-overflow:ellipsis to the div, so that it doesn't stretch the td.
And would want the appended text to only be the width of the TD rather than stretching it.
I followED some documentation online and added the appropriate css settings but to no avail.
Any idea why it's not working..Thanks.
var td = $('#text');
td.append("<div style='width:100px'><div msg style='color:red'>" + "apply ellipsis so it doesn't stretch the td" + "</div></div>");<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.slim.min.js" integrity="sha256-u7e5khyithlIdTpu22PHhENmPcRdFiHRjhAuHcs05RI=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<style>
table, th, td {
border: 1px solid black;
}
div[msg] {
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
background-color: blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table style="width:20%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th style="width:10%">Month</th>
<th style="width:10%">Savings</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="width:10%" id="text">
January
</td>
<td style="width:10%">
Lorem ipsum dolor.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>Add a container to your div with specific width.
You can use this CSS property (on the table element) to force the widths so they don't grow: table-layout: fixed.
Add a overflow:hidden to hide the extending content. But much better for UX would be a scroll bar or allowing the overflow on a new line.
table {
table-layout:fixed;
}
table, th, td {
border: 1px solid black;
}
td {
white-space: nowrap;
overflow:scroll;
/* overflow:hidden */
}<body>
<table style="width:400px">
<thead>
<tr>
<th style="width:20%;">Month</th>
<th>Savings</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td id="text">
January Lorem ipsum dolor.
</td>
<td>
Lorem ipsum dolor.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>