为了完整起见，我想补充一下这个问题。

Opera有一个叫做-o- elliposis -lastline的非标准支持。 dotdotdot是一个很棒的jQuery插件。

display: -webkit-box;
-webkit-line-clamp: 3;
-webkit-box-orient: vertical; 

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下面的链接为这个问题提供了一个纯HTML / CSS的解决方案。

浏览器支持-如文中所述:

到目前为止，我们已经在Safari 5.0, IE 9(必须在标准模式下)， Opera 12和Firefox 15。 旧的浏览器仍然可以很好地工作，作为布局的核心 是在正常定位，边距和填充属性。如果你的 平台较老(例如Firefox 3.6, IE 8)，您可以使用该方法，但 重做渐变作为一个独立的PNG图像或DirectX过滤器。

http://www.mobify.com/dev/multiline-ellipsis-in-pure-css

css:

p { margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif;}

.ellipsis {
    overflow: hidden;
    height: 200px;
    line-height: 25px;
    margin: 20px;
    border: 5px solid #AAA; }

.ellipsis:before {
    content:"";
    float: left;
    width: 5px; height: 200px; }

.ellipsis > *:first-child {
    float: right;
    width: 100%;
    margin-left: -5px; }        

.ellipsis:after {
    content: "\02026";  

    box-sizing: content-box;
    -webkit-box-sizing: content-box;
    -moz-box-sizing: content-box;

    float: right; position: relative;
    top: -25px; left: 100%; 
    width: 3em; margin-left: -3em;
    padding-right: 5px;

    text-align: right;

    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top,
        from(rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)), to(white), color-stop(50%, white));
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), white 50%, white);           
    background: -o-linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), white 50%, white);
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), white 50%, white);
    background: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), white 50%, white); }

html:

<div class="ellipsis">
    <div>
        <p>Call me Ishmael.  Some years ago &ndash; never mind how long precisely &ndash; having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.  It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation.  Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off &ndash; then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.</p>  
    </div>
</div>

小提琴

(调整浏览器窗口大小进行测试)

谢谢@balpha和@Kevin，我把两种方法结合在一起。

这个方法不需要js。

你可以使用背景图像和不需要梯度隐藏点。

.ellipsis-placeholder的innerHTML不是必需的，我使用.ellipsis-placeholder来保持与.ellipsis-more相同的宽度和高度。 你可以使用display: inline-block代替。

.ellipsis { overflow: hidden; position: relative; } .ellipsis-more-top {/*push down .ellipsis-more*/ content: ""; float: left; width: 5px; } .ellipsis-text-container { float: right; width: 100%; margin-left: -5px; } .ellipsis-more-container { float: right; position: relative; left: 100%; width: 5px; margin-left: -5px; border-right: solid 5px transparent; white-space: nowrap; } .ellipsis-placeholder {/*keep text around ,keep it transparent ,keep same width and height as .ellipsis-more*/ float: right; clear: right; color: transparent; } .ellipsis-placeholder-top {/*push down .ellipsis-placeholder*/ float: right; width: 0; } .ellipsis-more {/*ellipsis things here*/ float: right; } .ellipsis-height {/*the total height*/ height: 3.6em; } .ellipsis-line-height {/*the line-height*/ line-height: 1.2; } .ellipsis-margin-top {/*one line height*/ margin-top: -1.2em; } .ellipsis-text { word-break: break-all; } <div class="ellipsis ellipsis-height ellipsis-line-height"> <div class="ellipsis-more-top ellipsis-height"></div> <div class="ellipsis-text-container"> <div class="ellipsis-placeholder-top ellipsis-height ellipsis-margin-top"></div> <div class="ellipsis-placeholder"> <span>...</span><span>more</span> </div> <span class="ellipsis-text">text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text </span> </div> <div class="ellipsis-more-container ellipsis-margin-top"> <div class="ellipsis-more"> <span>...</span><span>more</span> </div> </div> </div>

斯菲德勒

我发现了一个javascript技巧，但你必须使用字符串的长度。假设你想要3行宽250px，你可以计算每行的长度。

//get the total character length.
//Haha this might vary if you have a text with lots of "i" vs "w"
var totalLength = (width / yourFontSize) * yourNumberOfLines

//then ellipsify
function shorten(text, totalLength) {
    var ret = text;
    if (ret.length > totalLength) {
        ret = ret.substr(0, totalLength-3) + "...";
    }
    return ret;
}

好问题……我希望有一个答案，但这是最近你能得到的CSS。没有省略，但仍然很好用。

overflow: hidden;
line-height: 1.2em;
height: 3.6em;      // 3 lines * line-height