Jeff Martin's Musings

I had a requirement to be able to show a long description for an item in a limited space.  The descriptions were coming from a 3rd party database and could be of any length.  The design called for the description area being two lines tall.  There is a CSS attribute called text-overflow: ellipsis.  It had several problems, however.  First of all it only worked on a single line basis. Mostly it had the big issue of not working at all in Firefox as it was a non-standard CSS call.

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