Top "Ellipsis" questions

An ellipsis is a series of dots, (usually 3, i.e. "…") used to indicate the omission of a word within some text, or more commonly that the preceding text has been truncated.

What is the ellipsis (...) for in this method signature?

In the App Engine docs, what is the ellipsis (JID...) for in this method signature? public MessageBuilder withRecipientJids(JID... recipientJids) …

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What is the hamburger menu icon called and the three vertical dots icon called?

Google and some other developers have introduced us to what some have called the hamburger menu button and now the 3 …

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HTML text-overflow ellipsis detection

I have a collection of block elements on a page. They all have the CSS rules white-space, overflow, text-overflow set …

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How to use text-overflow ellipsis in an html input field?

My web page has input fields to which I have applied the following css : .ellip { white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; overflow: …

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How to use R's ellipsis feature when writing your own function?

The R language has a nifty feature for defining functions that can take a variable number of arguments. For example, …

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Setting Ellipsize on TextView reduces lines shown by one (instead of only ellipsizing last)

when I am using TextView with singleLine="true" and ellipsize="end"(my top TextView), it works well but in another …

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Showing truncated text on hover using CSS ellipsis overlaps text below it

I have a name tag in the sidebar which should display single line and truncate if long text follow by …

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How do you use the ellipsis slicing syntax in Python?

This came up in Hidden features of Python, but I can't see good documentation or examples that explain how the …

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Ideal method to truncate a string with ellipsis

I'm sure all of us have seen ellipsis' on Facebook statuses (or elsewhere), and clicked "Show more" and there are …

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BootStrap Table text ellipsis can not be with responsive web?

I am trying to implement String ellipsis in the Table tag. The source code is below. <div> <…

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