linebender / linebender/parley
Text truncation with ellipsis
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Description
See the [CSS `text-overflow` property](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-overflow).
If we want to truncate some text rather than wrap it, it'd be nice to do that cleanly with an ellipsis instead of just clipping it:
egui supports arbitrary text truncation strings (Firefox also extends `text-overflow` to support that too); I'm not sure how difficult that would be.
It seems the appearance (font and size) of the ellipsis is determined in CSS by the "parent" style, which requires us to define that as well--see https://github.com/linebender/parley/issues/291.
This is necessary for porting egui to Parley.
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Research direction
No source file or test is named; start by locating the text truncation entry point and reviewing the CSS text-overflow behavior described here. Compare the requested ellipsis and arbitrary truncation strings with egui, then read parley issue #291 for parent-style handling. Done means truncation uses an ellipsis instead of clipping and its appearance is handled consistently.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- css, rust
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100