How to stop text taking up more than one line – CSS

Hey everyone,

Just a quick post on how to stop text taking up more than one line using only CSS:

.truncate {
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

You can check it out using this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/wb5m7/
There’s also a great StackOverflow post: http://stackoverflow.com/a/572302/522859

//jsfiddle.net/wb5m7/embed/html,css,result/


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