CSS Text Effects with Example

In CSS Text Effects we have following Properties:

text-overflow
word-wrap
word-break
writing-mode

Text-Overflow

The CSS text-overflow property specifies how overflowed content that is not displayed should be signaled to the user.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
p.test1 {
white-space: nowrap;
width: 200px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: clip;
}

p.test2 {
white-space: nowrap;
width: 200px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<h1>The text-overflow Property</h1>
<p>The following two paragraphs contains a long text that will not fit in the box.</p>

<h2>text-overflow: clip:</h2>
<p class="test1">This is some long text that will not fit in the box</p>

<h2>text-overflow: ellipsis(...):</h2>
<p class="test2">This is some long text that will not fit in the box</p>

</body>
</html>

Output:

Word-Wrap

The CSS word-wrap property allows long words to be able to be broken and wrap onto the next line.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
p.test {
width: 11em;
border: 1px solid #000000;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
p.test1{
width:11em;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}

</style>
</head>
<body>

<h1>The word-wrap Property</h1>

<h3> This with word-wrap property</h3>

<p class="test"> This paragraph contains a very long word: thisisaveryveryveryveryveryverylongword. The long word will break and wrap to the next line.</p>

<h3> This without word-wrap property </h3>

<p class="test1"> This paragraph contains a very long word: thisisaveryveryveryveryveryverylongword. The long word will break and wrap to the next line.</p>

</body>
</html>

Output:

Word-Break

The CSS word-break property specifies line breaking rules.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
p.test1 {
width: 140px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
word-break: keep-all;
}

p.test2 {
width: 140px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
word-break: break-all;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<h1>The word-break Property</h1>

<p class="test1">This paragraph contains some text. This line will-break-at-hyphens.</p>

<p class="test2">This paragraph contains some text. The lines will break at any character.</p>

<p><b>Note:</b> The word-break property is not supported in Opera 12 and earlier versions.</p>

</body>
</html>

Output:

Writing-Mode

The CSS writing-mode property specifies whether lines of text are laid out horizontally or vertically.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
p.test1 {
writing-mode: horizontal-tb;
}

span.test2 {
writing-mode: vertical-rl;
}

p.test2 {
writing-mode: vertical-rl;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>The writing-mode Property</h1>

<p class="test1">Some text with default writing-mode.</p>

<p>Some text with a span element with a <span class="test2">vertical-rl</span> writing-mode.</p>

<p class="test2">Some text with writing-mode: vertical-rl.</p>

</body>
</html>

Output:

Source: W3School

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