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HTML

<div>some text</div>
<div>some text that will overflow</div>

CSS

div {
    display: block;
    position: relative;
    left: 100px;
    width: 100px;
    text-align: center;
    white-space: nowrap;
    border: 1px solid black;
    background-color: silver;
}

div:before {
    content: "";
    margin-left: -100%;
}
div:after {
    content: "";
    margin-right: -100%;
}