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[Feature Request]: Badge component should support text truncation with ellipsis

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
react, scss, typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by locating the Badge component implementation and its tests, then inspect how its internal markup handles children and sizing. Check how Badge is used in Table cells and how the component’s styling is tested. Done means an opt-in truncation behavior shows an ellipsis as the available width changes without forcing the table row to grow.

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Description

enhancement
Description

Use case

When using Badge inside a Table cell to display dynamic content (e.g., resource tags like aws:cloudformation:stack-name=my-very-long-stack-name), long text causes the Badge to expand beyond the column width. Since Badge renders as an inline-block element, the table row height increases when the column is resized and the Badge cannot wrap internally, so it forces the row to grow.

There is currently no way to constrain Badge content with standard CSS (overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap) because the text is not a direct child of the overflow container, it's nested inside Badge's internal markup.

Proposed solution

Add a truncate boolean prop (or similar) to Badge that enables single-line text overflow with ellipsis:

<Badge truncate>aws:cloudformation:stack-name=my-very-long-value</Badge>

When enabled, the Badge's internal text container would apply:

overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;

And the Badge itself would respect a max-width (either from a parent container or an explicit prop) rather than always sizing to its content.

Workarounds attempted

  • Wrapping Badge in a div with overflow: hidden — clips visually but does not show ellipsis
  • Placing a styled span inside Badge children with text-overflow: ellipsis — does not respond to column resizing because Badge sizes to its content, creating a circular width dependency
  • Programmatic text truncation (string.slice(0, N) + '…') — works but is not responsive to layout changes
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