Show only first two rows from a paragraph

Question

I need to display some text on two lines, and add some \"...\" if the text is too long.

Example :

This is some long text and we need to show it on only two         


        

Answer 1

text-overflow works on some browsers -> http://www.quirksmode.org/css/textoverflow.html

or

Excellent answer here -> Insert ellipsis (...) into HTML tag if content too wide

or

To just limit the showing of 2 lines -> jTruncate jQuery plugin works well