How to prevent text from wrapping in css

In web development, it is often encountered that a whole paragraph of text needs to be displayed in a cell or container, but the text is too long, resulting in line breaks that affect the appearance. At this time, we can use CSS style control to prevent the text from wrapping and achieve more beautiful layout.

The following introduces several methods to control text not to wrap in CSS.

1. White-space attribute

In CSS, the white-space attribute is used to control the layout of text. By default, the value of the white-space attribute is "normal", that is, when it encounters whitespace characters such as spaces, newlines, tabs, etc., it will automatically wrap and no longer typeset forward. We just need to set it to "nowrap" so the text won't wrap.

The example is as follows:

.container {
  white-space: nowrap;
}

In the above code, .container represents the container that needs style control, and set white-space to nowrap will prevent the text from wrapping.

2. Overflow attribute

Another way to control text from wrapping is to use the overflow attribute. Use this attribute to hide or show the scroll bar when the content in the container exceeds the scope of the container. Here, we can set the value of overflow to "hidden", so that the text of the tributary beyond the scope of the container can be hidden, and the text will not wrap.

The example is as follows:

.container {
  overflow: hidden;
}

In the above code, .container represents the container for style control, and set overflow to hidden prevents text from wrapping.

3. text-overflow attribute

In some cases, the text is too long but cannot be hidden. It is necessary to display part of the text content and use ellipsis to indicate the undisplayed part. In this case, you can use text-overflow property. Use this attribute to display ellipses when the text exceeds a certain length, and the text will not wrap.

The example is as follows:

.container {
  overflow: hidden;   /* 必须要设置overflow属性值为“hidden” */
  white-space: nowrap;  /* 禁止文本换行 */
  text-overflow: ellipsis;  /* 超出容器大小的文本以省略号表示 */
}

In the above code, .container represents the container for style control, and set overflow to hidden# Set ##, white-space to nowrap and text-overflow to ellipsis to prevent text from wrapping and display ellipses.

Summary:

The above introduces three methods of controlling text not to wrap, using the white-space attribute, overflow attribute and text-overflow attribute. Which method to use depends on specific needs. During the development process, for the sake of beauty and readability, we need to master these basic CSS style control skills.

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