Its actually AJAX powered content (altough I can mess with it with JS or PHP), but I need to consider this:
- I still want access to the full script client side - This needs to be a generic solution where I can use this with similar cases without worry. I guess some JS solution is one way, is there no known approach somebody on the list employs when dealing with this sort of stuff? Thanks to everyone's advice! On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Sunny Beach <[email protected]>wrote: > How are the pages being built (server side)? It may be possible to cut the > text down before it gets to the CSS/JS stage. > > In Rails you can just call truncate on the text and pass the number of > characters: > <%= truncate(item.description, :length=>52) %> > > > http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M001743 > > Sunny > > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Roman Land <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I made this nice fiddle with BP to demonstrate what I mean: >> http://www.jsfiddle.net/3fGs3/1/ >> >> My questions is, what is the best approach with this kind of "content >> boxes" that house different types of texts, these are part of my site where >> there's a list of these boxes with content. >> >> The behavior I am looking for is for CSS to handle text that is too long >> in a way that pleases the eye :) >> For example I would expect overflowing text to be terminated with >> follwoing "..." before the line ends.. >> >> Since this is a CSS related list, I think you are the best authority on >> the matter. >> >> Thanks >> Roman >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Blueprint CSS" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<blueprintcss%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Blueprint CSS" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<blueprintcss%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en. > -- --- "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en.
