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For my website I have a checkbox with a label next to it, but if the text in the label is longer than for example 60px, I want to cut off the text.

I know about the text-overflow: clip, this does exactly what I want, but for some reason it doesn't work on a label. And using a div instead isn't a really good solution, since you can't click on the text to select the checkbox then.

How can I do this?

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label or span are inline by default. You cannot set width on inline elements. So make label inline-block

/// markup

<input type="checkbox"/> <label style="display: inline-block; width: 60px; overflow: hidden">Sample text sample text</label>
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Add text-overflow: clip to it, so the ... appears at the cut-off. –  LinkinTED Oct 6 '13 at 11:14
    
Yep. missed it. Thanx LinkinTED :) –  Arun Aravind Oct 6 '13 at 11:15
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