Stop a text box from expanding and to ellipse instead

Is there a way to stop a text box from expanding and to force the text to elipse instead?

I am trying to work with the dynamic content for a description, but am noticing if i make the description slightly to long it makes the text box stretch and in tern the contained box stretch, which then knocks all the alignment out of the grid. What i am wanting is if i put a longer description for it to elipse and then the user can open the page further to read the full description.

I can create a “short description” field and use this as a back up, but it means i would have to count the number of letters each time to stop it from expanding the box and just making the whole process a bit more fiddley.

Tried to look at changing it in the code as well, but the itemReady callback works before the data is asigned and could not find a callback that was after the data assigned, again i could do it manually but dont really want to hook up X number of fields manually just to add an elipse to a text box, as this seems like very much a massive workaround for something that i would think is possible.

Thanks for any help

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