Javascript truncate HTML text

Question

Hello.

Does JavaScript have a way of truncating HTML text without all the headaches of matching tags etc etc?

Thank you.

Answer 1

There's nothing built-in javascript. There's a jQuery plugin that you might take a look at.

Answer 2

That's quite challenging.

If you don't have any HTML markup, the following might be useful.

• http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/truncate/

Answer 3

Try using the javascript substring or slice string functions, depending on how you want to truncate.

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_string.asp