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)*$/, '...');
            });
        }
    });
}

Answer 2

To bad CSS doesn't support cross-browser multiline clamping, only webkit seems to be pushing it.

You could try and use a simple Javascript ellipsis library like Ellipsity on github the source code is very clean and small so if you do need to make any additional changes it should be quite easy.

https://github.com/Xela101/Ellipsity

Answer 3

I finally found a solution to do what I want. As p a paragraphe and article the wrapper. If you want to apply ellipsis to p depending on article height (which also depends on window height), you need to get the height of the article, the line-height of the p and then articleHeight/lineHeight to find the number of line-clamp that can be added dynamically then.

The only thing is the line-height should be declared in the css file.

Check the following code. If you change the height of the window, the line-clamp will change. Can be great to create a plug-in aiming to do that.

jsfiddle

function lineclamp() {
  var lineheight = parseFloat($('p').css('line-height'));
  var articleheight = $('article').height(); 
  var calc = parseInt(articleheight/lineheight);
  $("p").css({"-webkit-line-clamp": "" + calc + ""});
}


$(document).ready(function() {
    lineclamp();
});

$( window ).resize(function() {
 	lineclamp();
});

article {
  height:60%;
  background:red;
  position:absolute;
}

p {
  margin:0;
  line-height:120%;
  display: -webkit-box;
  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<article>
	<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque lorem ligula, lacinia a justo sed, porttitor vulputate risus. In non feugiat risus. Sed vitae urna nisl. Duis suscipit volutpat sollicitudin. Donec ac massa elementum massa condimentum mollis. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Nulla sollicitudin sapien at enim sodales dapibus. Pellentesque sed nisl eu sem aliquam tempus nec ut leo. Quisque rutrum nulla nec aliquam placerat. Fusce a massa ut sem egestas imperdiet. Sed sollicitudin id dolor egestas malesuada. Quisque placerat lobortis ante, id ultrices ipsum hendrerit nec. Quisque quis ultrices erat.Nulla gravida ipsum nec sapien pellentesque pharetra. Suspendisse egestas aliquam nunc vel egestas. Nullam scelerisque purus interdum lectus consectetur mattis. Aliquam nunc erat, accumsan ut posuere eu, vehicula consequat ipsum. Fusce vel ex quis sem tristique imperdiet vel in mi. Cras leo orci, fermentum vitae volutpat vitae, convallis semper libero. Phasellus a volutpat diam. Ut pulvinar purus felis, eu vehicula enim aliquet vitae. Suspendisse quis lorem facilisis ante interdum euismod et vitae risus. Vestibulum varius nulla et enim malesuada fringilla. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque lorem ligula, lacinia a justo sed, porttitor vulputate risus. In non feugiat risus. Sed vitae urna nisl. Duis suscipit volutpat sollicitudin. Donec ac massa elementum massa condimentum mollis. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Nulla sollicitudin sapien at enim sodales dapibus. Pellentesque sed nisl eu sem aliquam tempus nec ut leo. Quisque rutrum nulla nec aliquam placerat. Fusce a massa ut sem egestas imperdiet. Sed sollicitudin id dolor egestas malesuada. Quisque placerat lobortis ante, id ultrices ipsum hendrerit nec.</p></article>

Answer 4

Please check this css for ellipsis to multi-line text

body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 50px;
}

/* mixin for multiline */
.block-with-text {
  overflow: hidden;
  position: relative;
  line-height: 1.2em;
  max-height: 6em;
  text-align: justify;
  margin-right: -1em;
  padding-right: 1em;
}
.block-with-text:before {
  content: '...';
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
}
.block-with-text:after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
  width: 1em;
  height: 1em;
  margin-top: 0.2em;
  background: white;
}

<p class="block-with-text">The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massivelyuseful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of  Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon;  use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.</p>

Answer 5

Well you could use the line-clamp function in CSS3.

p {
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    display: -webkit-box;
    line-height: 25px;
    height: 52px;
    max-height: 52px;
    font-size: 22px;
    -webkit-line-clamp: 2;
    -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
}

Make sure you change the settings like you're own.