HTML Code:
<!DOCTYPE html><!-- Declares the document type and version of HTML -->
<html><!-- Begins the HTML document -->
<head><!-- Contains metadata and links to external resources -->
<title>How to use text-overflow property</title><!-- Sets the title of the document -->
<style type="text/css"> /* Starts CSS styling */
#div1 { /* Styles the div with ID 'div1' */
white-space: nowrap; /* Prevents text from wrapping */
width: 100%; /* Sets the width of the div to 100% */
overflow: hidden; /* Hides any content that overflows the div */
text-overflow: ellipsis; /* Specifies to display an ellipsis (...) when text overflows */
border: 1px solid #FF0000; /* Adds a 1px solid red border */
}
#div2 { /* Styles the div with ID 'div2' */
white-space: nowrap; /* Prevents text from wrapping */
width: 100%; /* Sets the width of the div to 100% */
overflow: hidden; /* Hides any content that overflows the div */
text-overflow: clip; /* Specifies to clip the text when it overflows */
border: 1px solid #FF0000; /* Adds a 1px solid red border */
}
</style><!-- Ends CSS styling -->
</head><!-- Ends the head section -->
<body><!-- Begins the body of the document -->
<h2><strong>w3resource Tutorial</strong></h2><!-- Displays a level 2 heading with bold text "w3resource Tutorial" -->
<p>Text overflow: ellipsis</p><!-- Displays a paragraph indicating text overflow: ellipsis -->
<div id="div1">CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents.</div><!-- Displays a div with ID 'div1' containing text, with overflow: ellipsis applied -->
<p>Text overflow: clip</p><!-- Displays a paragraph indicating text overflow: clip -->
<div id="div2">CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents.</div><!-- Displays a div with ID 'div2' containing text, with overflow: clip applied -->
</body><!-- Ends the body section -->
</html><!-- Ends the HTML document -->
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