fewlines

http://sergeir82.github.io/fewlines/ About:

Fewlines - is a lightweight jQuery plug-in to cut the text to a specified number of rows. The plugin was written in CoffeeScript, and easy to use:

$('#sample').fewlines();

Plugin options:

lines - The number of lines that you want to show. If amount of text less than a specified number of lines, the text will remain as is (default 2).

openMark - Open mark label (default '...').

newLine - If this option is true the open mark is placed on new line (default false).

closeMark - Close mark label (default 'close').