Text truncation

[stubbornella]

Description

Companies like AirBnb that include user reviews or other quoted text need finer grained control over truncation so they can ensure that the final quotes are placed in the right spot, regardless of the length of the text or the size of the page. This proposal includes 4 APIs: max-lines, block-ellipsis, continue, and unprefixing line-clamp. It does not include deprecating prefixed line-clamp.

Specification

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overflow-4/#propdef-line-clamp

Additional Signals

Airbnb uses JavaScript to achieve this today. They want something declarative and faster.

[gsnedders]

A duplicate of #725?

[meyerweb]

A duplicate of #725?

This is a superset of 725, from what I can see.