Cannot get ellipsis on a link text in IE9 and IE8

Question

<div class="jspPane" style="padding: 0px; top: 0px; width: 138px;">
   <ul style="display: block;">
     <li class="hyperlink" >
        <span class="xyz1" style="background-image:url(/Content/images/icon_link_16x7.png);"> View on Bing Maps website</span>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

////class //

 ul li {
    color: #137AFF;
    height: 25px;
    overflow: hidden;
    padding-left: 5px;
    padding-right: 4px;
    padding-top: 4px;
    text-align: left;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    width: 138px;
}
.hyperlink {
    color: #13A3F7;
    font-size: 12px !important;
    text-decoration: underline;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

My problem is I want to get an ellipsis over the text inside the innermost span. I cannot get the ellipsis on IE9 and IE8. Its works fine in Fire Fox. I tried removing span and using div instead , but it did not help. Please let me know if I am missing out anything. All help is appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

As far as I can tell, reading the msdn developer article regarding text-overflow, you need to use -ms-text-overflow:

ul li {
    color: #137AFF;
    height: 25px;
    overflow: hidden;
    padding-left: 5px;
    padding-right: 4px;
    padding-top: 4px;
    text-align: left;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    -ms-text-overflow: ellipsis;
    width: 138px; /* note that this width will have to be smaller to see the effect */
}

DEMO