html - With CSS, use "..." for overflowed block of multi-lines

Question

with

overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;

"..." will be shown in the end of the line if overflowed. However, this will be shown only in one line. But I would like it to be shown in multi-lines.

It may looks like:

+--------------------+
|abcde feg hij   dkjd|
|dsji jdia js ajid  s|
|jdis ajid dheu d ...|/*Here it's overflowed, so "..." is shown. */
+--------------------+

Answer 1

There are also several jquery plugins that deal with this issue, but many do not handle multiple lines of text. Following works:

• http://pvdspek.github.com/jquery.autoellipsis/
• http://dotdotdot.frebsite.nl/
• http://keith-wood.name/more.html
• http://github.com/tbasse/jquery-truncate

There also some preformance tests.