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Kevin Powell - Community•3y ago•
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Text overflow ellipsis once it invades parent padding

Hello, I have a container with wrapping flex items. The items are rectangles that have an icon and some text and have a set padding.
However, in some of there is too much text once they reach their minimum width and I want the text to overflow with ellipsis when it happens.

I tried setting text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden on the <p> tag with text and text disappears where I want it to however no ellipsis appear.

Ideally I would want it to show as many lines as possible and ellipsis if the lines overflow into parent's padding

I provided a screenshot that hopefully shows what I mean, there's more text there and it clips on parent's padding but doesn't show ellipsis.

Here's a link to tailwind playground that has code of what I'm trying to do
https://play.tailwindcss.com/jNKKYAiNxR
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