We’ll start by adding a class “.ellipsis” to the p tag and building it by example. Add white-space: nowrap, to limit the paragraph to a single line, and overflow: hidden keeps it from making the browser window wider. We then add width: 300px to limit the size (IE6 needs a width defined, even if it’s 100%) and begin constructing our label. Also, first recommended for CSS3 back in 2003[1], the CSS Text Module includes support for text-overflow: ellipsis. So putting that all together:

Assuming each and all you folk know how min-height is ‘supposed’ to work, would it be all that bold that it’s safe to say that…well… can’t we just do this? (because that’s what I’ve decided to do after throwing IE5.x out the window)