Max column width for text

I'm curious if it's possible to set a maximum column width (For example, 60px), and if the text in it gets any longer, cut the text off. We kinda need this, as we don't want a row to be higher than another row when one of the cells has a very long piece of text.
The text may be hidden via something like "overflow:hidden" (Which we tried to do, but didn't seem to work), or be cutoff replacing the end of the string with a few dots.