Steffen Rusitschka wanted a cross-browser text-overflow:ellipsis, so he created it and told us all about it via Ellipsis or “truncate with dots” via JavaScript.
You can see it in action, or download the code. The main ellipsis function:
JAVASCRIPT:
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function ellipsis(e) {
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var w = e.getWidth() - 10000;
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var t = e.innerHTML;
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e.innerHTML = "<span>" + t + "</span>";
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e = e.down();
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while (t.length> 0 && e.getWidth()>= w) {
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t = t.substr(0, t.length - 1);
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e.innerHTML = t + "...";
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}
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}
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