Display only 10 characters of a long string?

Question

How do I get a long text string (like a querystring) to display a maximum of 10 characters, using JQuery?

Sorry guys I'm a novice at JavaScript & JQuery :S
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Although this won't limit the string to exactly 10 characters, why not let the browser do the work for you with CSS:

.no-overflow {
    white-space: no-wrap;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    overflow: hidden;
}

and then for the table cell that contains the string add the above class and set the maximum permitted width. The result should end up looking better than anything done based on measuring the string length.

Answer 2

And here's a jQuery example:

HTML text field:

<input type="text" id="myTextfield" />

jQuery code to limit its size:

var elem = $("#myTextfield");
if(elem) elem.val(elem.val().substr(0,10));

As an example, you could use the jQuery code above to restrict the user from entering more than 10 characters while he's typing; the following code snippet does exactly this:

$(document).ready(function() {
    var elem = $("#myTextfield");
    if (elem) {
        elem.keydown(function() {
            if (elem.val().length > 10)
                elem.val(elem.val().substr(0, 10));
        });
    }            
});

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Update: The above code snippet was only used to show an example usage.

The following code snippet will handle you issue with the DIV element:

$(document).ready(function() {
    var elem = $(".tasks-overflow");
    if(elem){
        if (elem.text().length > 10)
                elem.text(elem.text().substr(0,10))
    }
});

Please note that I'm using text instead of val in this case, since the val method doesn't seem to work with the DIV element.

Answer 3

If I understand correctly you want to limit a string to 10 characters?

var str = 'Some very long string';
if(str.length > 10) str = str.substring(0,10);

Something like that?

Answer 4

Show this "long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text long text "

to

long text long text long ...

        function cutString(text){    
            var wordsToCut = 5;
            var wordsArray = text.split(" ");
            if(wordsArray.length>wordsToCut){
                var strShort = "";
                for(i = 0; i < wordsToCut; i++){
                    strShort += wordsArray[i] + " ";
                }   
                return strShort+"...";
            }else{
                return text;
            }
         };

Answer 5

What you should also do when you truncate the string to ten characters is add the actual html ellipses entity: …, rather than three periods.

Answer 6

var example = "I am too long string";
var result;

// Slice is JS function
result = example.slice(0, 10)+'...'; //if you need dots after the string you can add

Result variable contains "I am too l..."