I want to show ...
when overflow
happens,
but sadly in css there is only overflow:hidden
which is near but not exact what I wa
-moz-binding > firefox
-o-text-overflow > opera
text-overflow > ie + webkit (chrome/safari)
text-overflow: ellipsis;
See http://www.quirksmode.org/css/textoverflow.html and https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/text-overflow. Doesn't support Firefox, however.
Edit: There's a jQuery plugin for this. After you have installed it, call
$(thatElement).ellipsis();
to activate the style. See http://jsbin.com/acuti3. There are a bunch of other jQuery plugins for besides this.