<!doctype html> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>CSS Overflow: line-clamp with explicit height</title> <link rel="author" title="Emilio Cobos Álvarez" href="mailto:emilio@crisal.io"> <link rel="author" title="Mozilla" href="https://mozilla.org"> <link rel="help" href="https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overflow-3/#webkit-line-clamp"> <link rel="match" href="reference/webkit-line-clamp-040-ref.html"> <style> .clamp { display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; font: 16px / 32px serif; white-space: pre; background-color: yellow; height: 5em; } </style> <div class="clamp">Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5</div>