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Using Flexbox and text ellipsis together

You can truncate a single line of text with an ellipsis (…) fairly easily with text-overflow and a few friends. But, as you might expect, that truncation happens at the end of the line of text. What if you want to truncate content in the middle?

Leonardo Faria details good use cases for this, like in an operating system window listing files. The line of text is a file name and a file extension. When that line truncates, it truncates just the name, always leaving the extension at the end. The trick is a flexbox parent so you can use overflow on just the file name part, but have to make sure to reset the min-width, as the natural value there is min-content, which prevents the truncation which is confusing.

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A “new direction” in the struggle against rightward scrolling

You know those times you get a horizontal scrollbar when accidentally placing an element off the right edge of the browser window? It might be a menu that slides in or the like. Sometimes we to overflow-x: hidden; on the body to fix that, but that can sometimes wreck stuff like position: sticky;.

Well, you know how if you place an element off the left edge of a browser window, it doesn’t do that? That’s “data loss” and just how things work around here. It actually has to do with the direction of the page. If you were in a RTL situation, it would be the left edge of the browser window causing the overflow situation and the right edge where it doesn’t.

Emerson Loustau leverages that idea to solve a problem here. I’d be way too nervous messing with direction like this because I just don’t know what the side effects would be. But, hey, at least it doesn’t break position: sticky;.

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