[css-overflow] consider giving more fine control on ellipsis

[nico3333fr]

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overflow/ - I suppose.

Author should be able to control the way ellipsis happens and is computed, here is a simple example I face (I'm developing ProtonMail v4):

<span class="ellipsis">
  <span class="inline name">test account</span> 
  <span class="inline mail opacity-50">&lt;testaccount@protonmail.com&gt;</span>
</span>

Actually, I've to set up everything inline and apply the ellipsis on the entire block. Could be nice to be able to get something like this:

• test account <testaccount@proton...>
• test account <...>
• test accou...

In this case, I would need:

• something that allows me to say text-overflow: ellipsis <please use the color of the child element that is ellipsized> (which is currently not the case)
• better: a kind of parameter for the "priority" on how to apply ellipsis stuff

[TheSonOfThomp]

Are you asking for ellipsis color control, or control over which characters are 'ellipsized' (or both)?

[nico3333fr]

Both :)

[SebastianZ]

Those two things are separate enough to discuss them separately. So you should rather create a new one for styling the ellipsis and keep this one for providing control over how ellipsizing is done.

For what it's worth, there are previous discussions on ellipsizing in the middle of a string in #3937.

Sebastian