Paragraph overflow with ellipsis

Question

So I have a cell with a fixed height with title and content(shown below).

When the screen size gets smaller, the title gets text-overflow:ellipsis;.

Here is the markup that I used for both title and content:

  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  white-space: nowrap;    

However with the content part (simple div), the content extends beyond the container (not shown in the picture). Also because content usually has a paragraph, when i apply the same css markup as above, it goes simply beyond the container in a long line without break.

What I am trying to achieve is the last part (red circle) in the image.

So, I already have outer cell max-heightset. How can I make it so that the content stays within the cell max-height and whatever overflows goes to a next line and text-overflow: ellipsis; is applied instead of a long straight line?

Thanks guys.

Answer 1

Try this:

div {
  display: -webkit-box;
  overflow : hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  -webkit-line-clamp: 3;
  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;  
}