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HTML

<div class="container">
  <div class="nowrap">This text should be truncated</div>
</div>

<div class="container two">
  <div class="nowrap">This text should be truncated</div>
</div>

CSS

.container{
  width:196px;
  font-size:30px;
}

.container.two{
  width:193px;
}

.nowrap{
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  white-space:nowrap;
  overflow:hidden;
}