<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#div1 {
white-space: nowrap;
width: 12em;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: clip;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
#div2 {
white-space: nowrap;
width: 12em;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following two divs contains a long text that will not fit in the box. As you can see, the text is clipped.</p>
<p>This div uses "text-overflow:clip":</p>
<div id="div1">This is some long text that will not fit in the box</div>
<p>This div uses "text-overflow:ellipsis":</p>
<div id="div2">This is some long text that will not fit in the box</div>
</body>
</html>