css/css-ui/text-overflow-014.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>CSS Basic User Interface Test: styling the ellipsis</title>
<link rel="author" title="Florian Rivoal" href="http://florian.rivoal.net/">
<link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/#ellipsing-details">
<link rel="match" href="../reference/ref-filled-green-100px-square.xht">
<meta name="flags" content="ahem">
<meta name="assert" content="The ellipsis' font family, font size, and color are styled according to the block.">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/fonts/ahem.css" />
<style>
.test {
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  white-space:pre;
  font: 100px/1 Ahem;
  color: green;

  /* 2em width and starting with a space
     because the handling of the ellipsis of the first character on the line is special,
     and therefore we need to have the thing we want to test in non first position.
     Shifting 1em left to align with the usual green square.
   */
  width: 2em;
  margin-left: -1em;
}
.red {
  position: absolute;
  z-index: -1;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  background: red;
}
span {
  font: 50%/1 serif;
  color: red;
}
</style>

<p>Test passes if there is a filled green square and <strong>no red</strong>.</p>
<div class=red></div>
<div class=test> <span>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</span></div>