Cut off text in a div if it exceeds set width?

Question

On a website I am working on users can add a heading to a section of a page.A simple example:

M11-001 - loss of container and goods from Manchester


        

Answer 1

Something like this? http://www.quirksmode.org/css/textoverflow.html

Text-Overflow

The text-overflow declaration allows you to deal with clipped text: that is, text that does not fit into its box. The ellipsis value causes three periods to be appended to the text.