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appslevine
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12 years ago

Text cuts off with ellipsis in anchor tag

In the editor using custom HTML, when I put a div/heading/paragraph inside an anchor tag, lithium for some reason cuts off the text at a certain point and inserts ellipsis. Is there someway to turn t...
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Fellsteruk
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12 years ago

Found this, may help: 

 

"It's because anchors are as standard, inline elements. Adding display:inline-block will make the above code work."

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  • appslevine's avatar
    appslevine
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    12 years ago
    This does not work. I changed both elements to inline block elements, and only one or the other. None of the options work. This is my code:

    <a href="">
    <div class="inside">
    Long line of text blah blah blah.
    </div>
    </a>
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    appslevine
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    12 years ago
    can you link me to where you found that quote?
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  • Fellsteruk's avatar
    Fellsteruk
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    12 years ago

    It was basically suggesting you modify the CSS your using to change the ellipsis behaviour, Not sure it works on all browsers...? 

     

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