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!
>
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