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

Question

My web page has input fields to which I have applied the following css :

.ellip {
    white-space: nowrap;
    width: 200px;
    overflow: hidden;
    -o-text-overflow: ellipsis;
    -ms-text-overflow: ellipsis;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

But this doesn't seem to have any effect. Am I missing something obvious here or is it not possible to have an ellipsis in an input field using CSS only?

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but I was having the same problem and came across this blog post from Front End Tricks And Magic that worked for me, so I figured I'd share in case people are still curious. The gist of the blog is that you CAN do an ellipsis in an input in IE as well, but only if the input has a readonly attribute.

Obviously in many scenarios we don't want our input to have a readonly attribute. In which case you can use JavaScript to toggle it. This code is take directly from the blog, so if you find this answer helpful you might consider checking out the blog and leaving a comment of appreciation to the author.

// making the input editable
$('.long-value-input').on('click', function() {
  $(this).prop('readonly', '');
  $(this).focus();
})

// making the input readonly
$('.long-value-input').on('blur', function() {
  $(this).prop('readonly', 'readonly');
});

.long-value-input {
  width: 200px;
  height: 30px;
  padding: 0 10px;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="long-value-input-container">
  <input type="text" class="long-value-input" value="sdghkjsdghhjdfgjhdjghjdfhghjhgkdfgjnfkdgnjkndfgjknk" readonly />
</div>