JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<div class="resizable">
  Here is some text with some long words sep&#173;arated into parts by soft hy&#173;phen charac&#173;ters.
  Elong&#173;ated para&#173;phene&#173;lia and the likes.
  Pull the tiny draggy thing, bottom right, to resize.
</div>

CSS

.resizable {
  overflow: hidden;
  display: inline-block;
  width: 550px;
  background: #9999dd;
  font-size: 2em;
  font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  color: #f3f3f3;
  font-weight: bold;
  padding: 15px 20px;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  white-space: nowrap;
  resize: horizontal;
}