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How to limit length of the text

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

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Working on a site often there is a problem to limit length of pathway or heading of article since very long text can corrupt design of page. Usually when the text turns out too long, that does not get into one line, and it is carry over to the next line. However, for some reason very few people knows, that it is possible to tune up CSS so that the long text was cut off till the certain length, and in the end was ellipsis. For this purpose it is enough to prescribe in style (an example for pathway):
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About me ;-)

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Hello!

So, I’m really the physicist. Now I’m working on the PhD thesis (in the field of nonlinear dynamics) at the Southern Federal University (Russia).

I have an “off-hour work”: I’m the head of the “Student’s Academy of Sciences” at the University. And as a CMS for a site of this organization I have chosen the Joomla!.

For long enough time I managed to understand Joomla! indifferently well. In this blog I’ll describe some most interesting problems concerning Joomla!, answers on which I have taken.

PS. Sorry if I still cannot speak English well.