text-overflow ellipsis does not work with dynamic width

Question

hope someone can help.

I have 3 nested div. Parent, children and children's children.

What i want to accomplish (the motive is not relevant) is that that child gets a relative width depending on the parent's width (a percentage) and the children's children must have an overflow ellipsis depending on that width. The problem is that if i use a % in the children's width the ellipsis does not work and if i define the width in pixeles it work.

Here is the HTML

<div class="a">
   <div class="b">
        <div class="c">
        Here should go some text long enough to ellipsis the overflow
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Here is the nonworking CSS

    .a {
        border:black 1px solid;
        float: left;
        width: 122px;
        display: table;
        line-height: 14px;
    }
    .b {
        width:100%;
        color: black;
        font-size: 14px;
        text-transform: uppercase;
        cursor: pointer;
    }
    .c {
        line-height: 11px;
        width: 100%;
        text-overflow: ellipsis;
        overflow: hidden;
        white-space:nowrap;
    }

However if i change b's width for 122px it works perfect (note that 122px should equal 100%).

You can check it here: http://jsfiddle.net/vNRpw/4/

Thanks!

Answer 1

Had display: table; in first div which was causing troubles with the ellipsis. If you delete this then the ellipsis works fine.

I wont delete the question it may help someone

Check it working here: http://jsfiddle.net/vNRpw/6/