Multi-Line Truncation with Pure CSS

Truncating a single line of text if is fairly straightforward. Truncating multiple lines is a bit harder. Using just CSS (no JavaScript or server-side dancing) is nice for the simplicity. It's gotten a little easier lately since Firefox (since version 68) has started supporting the ultra-bizarre -webkit-line-clamp soup method, which makes browser support for that pretty OK.

There is another way though, which is very clever and something I'd call a bonafide CSS trick. We somehow failed to … Read article

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