# "..." at the end of textfield

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/at-the-end-of-textfield/293861>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 5, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/at-the-end-of-textfield/293861 "2009-08-05T03:04:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![pardoner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@pardoner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pardoner)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/at-the-end-of-textfield/293861/1 "2009-08-05T03:04:42Z")

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I’m attempting to make a Textfield that is a fixed size and that replaces the overflow text that an ellipse (…). Has anyone found any clever ways to do this?