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[css-overflow-4] Remove request to not expose line-clamp longhands #12400

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Expand Up @@ -823,14 +823,6 @@ Limiting Visible Lines: the 'line-clamp' shorthand property</h3>
The 'line-clamp' property is a <a>shorthand</a>
for the 'max-lines', 'block-ellipsis', and 'continue' properties.

Issue: For the time being,
experimental implementations are encouraged
to follow the full behavior defined by this shorthand and its longhands,
but to only expose the shorthand to authors.
This is in order to facilitate further tweaking,
and in particular potential renaming,
of the longhand properties and their values.

It allows limiting the contents of a block container
to the specified number of lines;
remaining content is fragmented away
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