Anybody wanna fork http://mootools.net/forge/p/fittext and make it
bettwer with some of this stuff? :D
On Feb 22, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Barry van Oudtshoorn wrote:
I wrote a small function implemented on String that will ellipsise
strings for you... Beginning, middle or end. Similar to bootle's
approach, but with the function implemented on the string.
http://www.barryvan.com.au/2009/08/javascript-string-ellipsising/
As far as I know, if you want to dynamically determine text width,
you have two options:
1) Use canvas, which isn't supported in all browsers;
2) Create an absolutely positioned element with no word-wrapping,
and add characters to it until its pixel length reaches some value,
which is slow.
Personally, I've found that just using a simple character count
works pretty well in most cases. If you get the right value, the
worst that can happen is extra whitespace in your elements.
http://barryvan.com.au/
[email protected]
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Roman Land <[email protected]>
wrote:
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!
>
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