Succinct
A tiny jQuery plugin for truncating multiple lines of text
How does it work?
Succinct shortens your text to a specified size, and then adds an ellipsis to the end.
Demo
Live Demo: http://micjamking.github.io/succinct/
Usage
Specify the elements that you would like to truncate as a selector, and then set the size parameter to the amount you would like to see. For example, if you would like to truncate all elements with a specific class, ie. <p class="truncate"> to 120 characters...
<script> $(function(){ $('.truncate').succinct({ size: 120 }); }); </script>By default, the plugin truncates text to 240 characters.
To change the ellipsis to an HTML unicode arrow "→"...
<script> $(function(){ $('.truncate').succinct({ omission: '→' }); }); </script>By default, the plugin also removes the set of 32 ASCII special characters at the end of words, ie. ! " # $ and so on. To disable this behavior...
<script> $(function(){ $('.truncate').succinct({ ignore: false }); }); </script>Details
- *Succinct is < 0.6kb minified
- You'll need a copy of jQuery to run this plugin
- Suggestions, comments, or creative insults: add an issue or fork the repo.
Copyright
MIT license Copyright (c) 2014 Mike King (@micjamking)
