A: 

What browser? The text-overflow property is not universally supported.

This may help: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/textoverflow.html

EDIT: Oh never mind, iphone == safari. Perhaps the version is relevant though.

SpliFF  2009-07-01 03:51:42
It appears that the only way to get an ellipsis to display is by constraining the text to one line (with white-space: nowrap).
Andrew Hedges  2009-07-01 04:00:36
have you tried white-space pre or pre-wrap and other alternatives?
SpliFF  2009-07-01 04:08:25
Interesting idea. I tried it and it does force an ellipsis, but puts the content on 2 lines, where I want 3. It would cause me to need to break lines server-side to get the effect, which is what I'm trying to avoid. Thanks for the idea, though.
Andrew Hedges  2009-07-01 04:39:13

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