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text-overflow: ellipsis on middle span

I have a bar like this:

<div class="traffic-info-bar" ng-if="hasTrafficInfo" ng-click="openTrafficInfoModal()">
    <span class="icon ion-alert-circled"></span>
    <span class="traffic-info-main-text">This is a very long placeholder text</span>
    <span class="traffic-info-read-more">Read more</span>
</div>

With CSS:

.traffic-info-bar {
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-weight: bold;
  color:#fff;
  text-align:center;
  background-color: #007aff;
  height: 40px;
  padding-top: 12px;
}

.traffic-info-main-text {
  overflow-x: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  white-space: nowrap;
}

.traffic-info-read-more {
  font-size: 10px;
  text-decoration: underline;
}

This is the result on a small screen (iPhone 5):

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As you see, you can almost see the "READ MORE" text at the bottom of the blue bar. This is an exampla what I want it to look like.

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Can anyone see how I can solve this?

Solution

  • I understand the hype of "flexbox can do that" but you can do that without using flexbox at all. It's simpler, just a matter of inline block and block elements. Since you are using a span, by default it's an inline-block, you need to wrap it in a container that is a block and has a defined width.

    Before even trying flexbox it is important to understand the difference between these two.

    Here's in jsfiddle.

    Here's the code snippet:

    .traffic-info-bar {
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #fff;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: #007aff;
  height: 40px;
  padding-top: 12px;
}

.traffic-info-main-text__container {
  float: left;
  width: 80%;
  overflow-x: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  white-space: nowrap;
  border: 1px solid pink;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  padding: 0 10px;
}

.traffic-info-main-text {
  overflow-x: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  white-space: nowrap;
}

.traffic-info-read-more__container {
  float: left;
  width: 20%;
  border: 1px solid yellow;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

.traffic-info-read-more {
  font-size: 10px;
  text-decoration: underline;
}
    <div class="traffic-info-bar" ng-if="hasTrafficInfo" ng-click="openTrafficInfoModal()">
  <div class="traffic-info-main-text__container">
    <span class="icon ion-alert-circled"></span>
    <span class="traffic-info-main-text">This is a very long placeholder text</span>
  </div>
  <div class="traffic-info-read-more__container">
    <span class="traffic-info-read-more ellipses">Read more</span>
  </div>
</div>