CSS overflow hidden causing text alignment problems

.topRow div {
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align:middle;
}

#name {
    max-width: 70%;
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

<div class="topRow">
       <div id="edit">
              <div id="pre">Before -</div>
              <div id="name">Some long text that should get truncated when it passes the max width</div>                    
              <div id="post">- After</div>
       </div>
 </div>