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Clamps a block of text to a certain number of lines followed by an ellipsis in Webkit and Blink based browsers

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text-clamp.scss

// Reference: http://dropshado.ws/post/1015351370/webkit-line-clamp
@mixin text-clamp($lines: 2, $line-height: false) {
    overflow: hidden;
    display: -webkit-box;
    -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
    -webkit-line-clamp: $lines;
 
    // Fallback for non-Webkit browsers
    // (won't show `…` at the end of the block)
    @if $line-height {
        max-height: $line-height * $lines * 1px;
    }
}