
We all are good with flex boxes and all. Lets have a case when we have a box of width something say; 300px, now adding 3 div inside this such that the middle text can be very long. So for this we will be using ellipsis as text-overflow. So, taking all this in mind. Lets begin.
Lets first write the HTML code-
<div class="outerWrapper">
<div class="first">
Life of pie
</div>
<div class="secondthird">
<div class="second">
This is a very long text needs to have dot dot
</div>
<div class="third">
Chevron
</div>
</div>
</div>
So, in this html view, we just created 3 divs with an outer wrapper and a secondthird div as the wrapper of the second and third div. Now, lets move on to the css part.
.outerWrapper{
display: flex;
width: 300px;
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 10px;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.secondthird{
display: flex;
width: 60%;
}
.first{
white-space: nowrap;
margin-right: 8px;
}
.second{
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
overflow: hidden;
}
.third{
margin-left: 8px;
}
Some information:
For creating the ellipsis effect using CSS. i.e. if content overflows then 3 dots appear. We have to use these 3 properties:
1. white-space: no-wrap // which means the text dont overflow to next line.
2. text-overflow: ellipsis // which means that the text overflow will results in 3 dots
3. overflow: hidden // which means that the overflowed text will be hidden.
For more clearity checkout my jsfiddle.
https://jsfiddle.net/djmayank/fkw5rcna/1/
https://jsfiddle.net/djmayank/fkw5rcna/1/

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