Nice Ryan, this looks like a good start, I am thinking about adding mouse over action and maybe more once I get around to implement this!
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Ryan Florence <[email protected]>wrote: > Because you can't get the ellipses in the middle, which is a usability > thing for me. > > I will say, I did FitText a long while ago and it needs help desperately! > > > On Feb 22, 2010, at 10:42 PM, Guillermo Rauch wrote: > > Any reason not to use text-overflow: ellipsis? > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:33 PM, ibolmo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> nice Ryan. >> >> Maybe the ... should be <abbr title="{trimmed_string}">...</abbr> >> >> On Feb 22, 6:15 pm, Ryan Florence <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Anybody wanna forkhttp://mootools.net/forge/p/fittextand 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/youcould 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 >> > > > > -- > Guillermo Rauch > http://devthought.com > > > -- --- "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
