Bug 27545 – Implement CSS3 text-overflow <string> option

• Status: REOPENED
• Component: CSS

[Jessie Berlin]

Right now we support text-overflow clip and ellipsis, but we don't support the string option as specified in:

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#text-overflow

and we do not currently expose it in getComputedStyle(we have it listed as unimplemented in \WebCore\css\CSSComputedStyleDeclaration.cpp)

[Jessie Berlin]

Splitting this bug into two, one to implement the CSS3 text-overflow <string> option, and the other to expose text-overflow in getComputedStyle

(https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27554)

[Karl Dubost]

The new specification doesn't have anymore 

`text-overflow: <string>`

in https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overflow-3/#propdef-text-overflow
only the two values: clip and ellipsis are valid.

Only Firefox currently supports this feature. 
Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1771853 for removing it from Firefox.

This can be closed.

[Tim Nguyen (:ntim)]

It is in CSS-overflow-4: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overflow-4/#text-overflow . Could be worth implementing?

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/94415937>

[Brent Fulgham]

*** Bug 95030 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Karl Dubost]

Some tests on 
http://wpt.live/css/css-overflow/parsing/text-overflow-computed.html
http://wpt.live/css/css-overflow/parsing/text-overflow-valid.html

Are failing because of this.