Ok, let's say I have a 50px div that is used to display text gathered from a db, a file, or whatever. However, if the text happens to be too big to fit in the div, I want it truncated, and I want to fit as much text as possible inside the div, but also append a (...) in the end (the div's overflow is already set to hidden).
Example words and expected results:
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Expected results would be:
OOOOOOO(...)
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii(...)
(As you can see, 28 i's take about the same amount of space as 7 O's, and changing the font is not an option.).
I don't think I'm the first person to face this issue so I was wondering if there was a known way to do this sort of thing I'm not aware of.
4  1577 
You can set font-family:monospace in css and size the element in ems instead of px.
I could do that, the problem is I can't do that (client specs :P .).
I think the way to go is offsetWidth.
I could set the overflow back to visible, and if the div's offsetwidth is larger than what it is supposed to be, I could eliminate letters from the text within it until the offset goes back to it's default size... seems a bit ugly tho :P
No ideas? suggestions? witty remarks about the fact that I souldn't be doing this at all?
:(
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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<html>
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<head>
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<title>Overflow text</title>
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</head>
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<style>
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#holder {height:103px; width:325px; display:block; overflow:hidden; border:1px solid #000;}
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</style>
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<body>
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<div id="holder">
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<span>
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Pellentesque mauris sem, tempus sed, ultricies nec, sagittis nec, nisi. Nullam nulla dui, tempus vitae, commodo sit amet, molestie consectetuer, quam. Donec sed est. Morbi lacinia iaculis urna. Nullam molestie feugiat leo. Donec pharetra, nisi ac fringilla pretium, enim tellus tempor libero, in consequat est leo at lectus. Nullam quis nibh at ipsum nonummy sodales. Nullam nibh. Vivamus nulla. Nunc pretium lectus a est. Morbi ut quam. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Nulla in risus eget purus elementum convallis. Duis quam libero, blandit vulputate, sodales non, gravida id, nibh.
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</span>
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</div>
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<script>
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window.onload = organizeText("holder")
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function organizeText(elm) {
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textHolder = document.getElementById(elm);
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text = textHolder.getElementsByTagName("span")[0];
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while (text.offsetWidth > textHolder.offsetWidth) {
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conteudo = text.innerHTML
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conteudoTemp = conteudo.substring(0,conteudo.length-1);
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text.innerHTML = conteudoTemp
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}
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while(text.offsetHeight > textHolder.offsetHeight) {
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conteudo = text.innerHTML
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conteudoTemp = conteudo.substring(0,conteudo.length-1);
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text.innerHTML = conteudoTemp
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}
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text.innerHTML = text.innerHTML.substring(text.innerHTML.length-3, text.innerHTML,length) + "..."
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}
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</script>
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</body
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</html>
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There´s small example.
You can improve it to satisfy your needs.
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