diff --git a/src/components/Text/RNText.ts b/src/components/Text/RNText.ts
index 717c7a7f..e70e83da 100644
--- a/src/components/Text/RNText.ts
+++ b/src/components/Text/RNText.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { QLabel, NodeWidget, QLabelSignals, TextInteractionFlag } from '@nodegui/nodegui';
+import { QLabel, NodeWidget, QLabelSignals, TextInteractionFlag, QFontMetrics, TextElideMode, WidgetEventTypes } from '@nodegui/nodegui';
 import { ViewProps, setViewProps } from '../View/RNView';
 import { RNWidget } from '../config';
 import { throwUnsupported } from '../../utils/helpers';
@@ -6,11 +6,23 @@ import { throwUnsupported } from '../../utils/helpers';
 export interface TextProps extends ViewProps<QLabelSignals> {
   children?: string | number | Array<string | number>;
   wordWrap?: boolean;
+  elideMode?: TextElideMode;
   scaledContents?: boolean;
   openExternalLinks?: boolean;
   textInteractionFlags?: TextInteractionFlag;
 }
 
+function elideTextListener(widget: RNText, elideMode: TextElideMode) {
+  const metrics = new QFontMetrics(widget.font());
+  return () => {
+    const lines = widget.wordWrap() ? Math.floor(widget.size().height() / metrics.lineSpacing()) : 1;
+    const text = metrics.elidedText(`${widget.textOfChildren}`,
+      elideMode,
+      (widget.size().width() - metrics.maxWidth()) * lines);
+    widget.setText(text);
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * @ignore
  */
@@ -23,7 +35,23 @@ export const setTextProps = (
     set children(text: string | number | Array<string | number>) {
       text = Array.isArray(text) ? text.join('') : text;
 
-      widget.setText(text);
+      // Empty Text fields should not write "undefined"
+      if (text === undefined) {
+        widget.textOfChildren = "";
+      } else {
+        widget.textOfChildren = `${text}`;
+      }
+      widget.setText(widget.textOfChildren);
+    },
+    set elideMode(mode: TextElideMode) {
+      if (oldProps.elideMode !== mode && widget.resizeListener !== undefined) {
+        widget.removeEventListener(WidgetEventTypes.Resize, widget.resizeListener);
+      }
+      if (oldProps.elideMode !== mode && mode !== undefined) {
+        widget.resizeListener = elideTextListener(widget, mode);
+        widget.addEventListener(WidgetEventTypes.Resize, widget.resizeListener);
+        widget.resizeListener();
+      }
     },
     set wordWrap(shouldWrap: boolean) {
       widget.setWordWrap(shouldWrap);
@@ -34,7 +62,7 @@ export const setTextProps = (
     set openExternalLinks(shouldOpenExternalLinks: boolean) {
       widget.setProperty('openExternalLinks', shouldOpenExternalLinks);
     },
-    set textInteractionFlags(interactionFlag: TextInteractionFlag){
+    set textInteractionFlags(interactionFlag: TextInteractionFlag) {
       widget.setProperty('textInteractionFlags', interactionFlag);
     }
   };
@@ -46,6 +74,9 @@ export const setTextProps = (
  * @ignore
  */
 export class RNText extends QLabel implements RNWidget {
+  textOfChildren?: string;
+  resizeListener?: () => void;
+
   setProps(newProps: TextProps, oldProps: TextProps): void {
     setTextProps(this, newProps, oldProps);
   }