Thanks for sharing Bootle! This looks like a possible solution indeed, would be interested to see something even cleverer.. For example I dont want to calculate max chars manually...
Wonder if there's a plugin that can do this..? On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:39 PM, bootle <[email protected]> wrote: > wow, sorry, this one is better: http://www.jsfiddle.net/3fGs3/6/ > > On Feb 22, 9:34 pm, bootle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Should be visible for box 5, don't have FF3.5.8 here but I guess it's > > the same in 3.6. > > It just breaks super long continuous strings into parts so that they > > don't go out of wrapper in width. As for text running out the box in > > height I'd just estimate how many chars will fit there and substring > > the content like here:http://www.jsfiddle.net/3fGs3/5/you could also > > run a while loop and check for height of the content I think it would > > be pretty inefficient for larger amounts of stuff tho > > > > On Feb 22, 9:10 pm, "Matthew Hazlett" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > No effect in FF 3.5.8 or ie 8, well for me at least > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] > > > > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of bootle > > > Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 3:40 PM > > > To: MooTools Users > > > Subject: [Moo] Re: Pretty text trimming > > > > > hey, > > > > > You can use 'word-wrap: break-word' in CSS, like here: > http://www.jsfiddle.net/3fGs3/4/ > > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > > Matt > > > > > On Feb 22, 8:27 pm, 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 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.. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > -- > > > > --- > > > > "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." > > > > > > - Albert Einstein > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature > > > database 4888 (20100222) __________ > > > > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > > > >http://www.eset.com > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature > > > database 4888 (20100222) __________ > > > > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > > > >http://www.eset.com > -- --- "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
