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HTML

<div class="flex">
  <div class="overflow">
    this text will overflow
  </div>
</div>

CSS

.flex { 
  display: -webkit-flex;
  width: 100px;
  border: 1px solid black;
} 
.overflow { 
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
}