Applying an ellipsis to multiline text [duplicate]

Answer 1

I came up with my own solution for this:

/*this JS code puts the ellipsis (...) at the end of multiline ellipsis elements
 *
 * to use the multiline ellipsis on an element give it the following CSS properties
 * line-height:xxx
 * height:xxx (must line-height * number of wanted lines)
 * overflow:hidden
 *
 * and have the class js_ellipsis
 * */

//do all ellipsis when jQuery loads
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {put_ellipsisses();});

//redo ellipsis when window resizes
var re_ellipsis_timeout;
jQuery( window ).resize(function() {
    //timeout mechanism prevents from chain calling the function on resize
    clearTimeout(re_ellipsis_timeout);
    re_ellipsis_timeout = setTimeout(function(){ console.log("re_ellipsis_timeout finishes"); put_ellipsisses(); }, 500);
});

//the main function
function put_ellipsisses(){
    jQuery(".js_ellipsis").each(function(){

        //remember initial text to be able to regrow when space increases
        var object_data=jQuery(this).data();
        if(typeof object_data.oldtext != "undefined"){
            jQuery(this).text(object_data.oldtext);
        }else{
            object_data.oldtext = jQuery(this).text();
            jQuery(this).data(object_data);
        }

        //truncate and ellipsis
        var clientHeight = this.clientHeight;
        var maxturns=100; var countturns=0;
        while (this.scrollHeight > clientHeight && countturns < maxturns) {
            countturns++;
            jQuery(this).text(function (index, text) {
                return text.replace(/\W*\s(\S)*$/, '...');
            });
        }
    });
}