How to hide part of the text inside div
or span
?
I have a text of 160 characters but I would like to display only first 40.
I have to have the complete text inside my div
, span
as I do javascript searches.
How to hide part of the text inside div
or span
?
I have a text of 160 characters but I would like to display only first 40.
I have to have the complete text inside my div
, span
as I do javascript searches.
You will need some javascript to create a span arround the last 120 characters that hides them. There is a CSS attribute "visibility:hidden" that can be applied to the span.
Something like that should be the result:
<div>first 40 chars <span style="visibility:hidden">last 120 chars</span></div>
You can use a simple css property for your element "text-overflow: ellipsis;" to use this property effectively you need to apply some related properties along with that.
For Example:
<div style="width: 50px; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;">Some text goes here</div>
*Tested in Chrome.
If you want to clip the div to a certain size, rather than an exact number of characters, you can just give the div the size you want and specify overflow: hidden
to clip the content that doesn't fit.
If you make sure the height of the div is a multitude of the line height of the text, you won't have the content clipped in the (vertical) middle of a line.