How to Display Text, a Dotted Line Then More Text Spanning the Width of the Page

How to display text, a dotted line then more text spanning the width of the page?

I'd suggest that, perhaps, a ul would be one option:

<ul>
    <li><span class="definition">Name:</span><span class="defined">Engineer</span></li>
    <li><span class="definition">Factory location:</span><span class="defined">not invoice address</span></li>
</ul>

CSS:

ul li {
    border-bottom: 2px dotted #ccc;
}

span.defined {
    float: right;
}

span.defined:before {
    content: "(";
}

span.defined:after {
    content: ")";
}

JS Fiddle demo.

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Edited to correct the CSS. And the HTML. Oops.

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Edited in response to @Leigh's (accurate) comment:

This isn't doing what the OP asked for? This just gives a dotted underline (FF 3.5), not dots between the two pieces of text.

I've adjusted the CSS a little to hide the dotted border under the spans:

ul li {
    border-bottom: 2px dotted #ccc;
    line-height: 2em;
    text-align: right;
    clear: both;
    margin: 0.5em 0 0 0;
}

span.definition {
    float: left;
}

span.defined:before {
    content: "(";
}

span.defined:after {
    content: ")";
}

span {
    display: inline-block;
    border: 2px solid #fff;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0 0 -2px 0;
}

Admittedly this is only tested in Chrome 8, and Firefox 3.6, Ubuntu 10.10.

Updated JS Fiddle demo.

How can I show dots ( ... ) in a span with hidden overflow?

For this you can use text-overflow: ellipsis; property. Write like this

span {

    display: inline-block;

    width: 180px;

    white-space: nowrap;

    overflow: hidden !important;

    text-overflow: ellipsis;

}

<span>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book</span>

Working on dotted line span and I can't figure out how to make it same line

Maybe something like this: http://jsfiddle.net/dwCmg/1

Not exactly what you hoped for (different markup), but it seems to work well on all major browsers. The idea is basically to use tables:

HTML:

<div class='definition'>
    <span class='name'>Phone</span>
    <span class='dots'></span>
    <span class='value'>123-4567</span>
</div>

CSS:

.definition {display:table; width:480px;}
.definition > span {display:table-cell; white-space:nowrap;}
.definition > span.dots {width:100%; background: url(http://galeon.sourceforge.net/twiki/pub/TWiki/TWikiDocGraphics/dot_lr.gif) repeat-x 0 180%;}

How to increase space between dotted border dots

This trick works for both horizontal and vertical borders:

/*Horizontal*/
background-image: linear-gradient(to right, black 33%, rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%);
background-position: bottom;
background-size: 3px 1px;
background-repeat: repeat-x;

/*Vertical*/
background-image: linear-gradient(black 33%, rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%);
background-position: right;
background-size: 1px 3px;
background-repeat: repeat-y;

You can adjust the size with background-size and the proportion with the linear-gradient percentages. In this example I have a dotted line of 1px dots and 2px spacing.
This way you can have multiple dotted borders too using multiple backgrounds.

Try it in this JSFiddle or take a look at the code snippet example:

div {

  padding: 10px 50px;

}

.dotted {

  border-top: 1px #333 dotted;

}

.dotted-gradient {

  background-image: linear-gradient(to right, #333 40%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 20%);

  background-position: top;

  background-size: 3px 1px;

  background-repeat: repeat-x;

}

.dotted-spaced {

  background-image: linear-gradient(to right, #333 10%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0%);

  background-position: top;

  background-size: 10px 1px;

  background-repeat: repeat-x;

}

.left {

  float: left;

  padding: 40px 10px;

  background-color: #F0F0DA;

}

.left.dotted {

  border-left: 1px #333 dotted;

  border-top: none;

}

.left.dotted-gradient {

  background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #333 40%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 20%);

  background-position: left;

  background-size: 1px 3px;

  background-repeat: repeat-y;

}

.left.dotted-spaced {

  background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #333 10%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0%);

  background-position: left;

  background-size: 1px 10px;

  background-repeat: repeat-y;

}

<div>no

  <br>border</div>

<div class='dotted'>dotted

  <br>border</div>

<div class='dotted-gradient'>dotted

  <br>with gradient</div>

<div class='dotted-spaced'>dotted

  <br>spaced</div>

<div class='left'>no

  <br>border</div>

<div class='dotted left'>dotted

  <br>border</div>

<div class='dotted-gradient left'>dotted

  <br>with gradient</div>

<div class='dotted-spaced left'>dotted

  <br>spaced</div>

How to create both-sided dotted line around a title?

This solution is adapted from this answer : Line separator under text and transparent background

The dotted line will stay verticaly centered according to the height of the text (font-size, multiple lines) and adapt to the width of the text :

@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300);

body{

    background-image: url(http://fr.playstation.com/media/5ZfqPjVF/BigSkyInfinity_Hero_EN.JPG);

    background-repeat:no-repeat;

    background-size:100% auto;

    font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;

}

.divider{

    color:#ccc;

    width:70%;

    margin:20px auto;

    overflow:hidden;

    text-align:center;   

    line-height:1.2em;

}

.divider:before, .divider:after{

    content:"";

    vertical-align:middle;

    display:inline-block;

    width:50%;

    border-bottom:2px dotted #ccc;

    margin:0 2% 0 -55%;

}

.divider:after{

    margin:0 -55% 0 2%;

}

h1:nth-child(2){

    font-size:3em;

}

span{

  display:inline-block;

  vertical-align:middle;

  }

<h1 class="divider">Today</h1>

<h1 class="divider">Today News</h1>

<h1 class="divider"><span>Today News<br/>More text<span></h1>

CSS - Create a custom dotted line out divs

This is the only solution without using background-image or border-image encoded in base64 or using external files.

https://jsfiddle.net/3r6xsr0m/

html:

<div class="line"></div>

css:

.line:before {
    content: "..................................................................................................";
    display: block;
    font-size: 60px;
    font-family: Georgia;
    color: #aaa;
    max-width: 100%;
    overflow: hidden;
}

Dots may differ depending of browser font rendering algorithm.

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