Chi Shang Cheng cscheng
cscheng
/ jquery.truncatelines.js
Created
April 7, 2011 07:39
A simple jQuery plugin to truncate a piece of text to a predefined amount of lines. It assumes pixel values of both the container and its line-height. Useful when you have multiple boxes with text in your design that require equal heights.
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| $.fn.truncateLines = function(options) { | |
| options = $.extend($.fn.truncateLines.defaults, options); | |
| return this.each(function(index, container) { | |
| container = $(container); | |
| var containerLineHeight = Math.ceil(parseFloat(container.css('line-height'))); | |
| var maxHeight = options.lines * containerLineHeight; | |
| var truncated = false; | |
| var truncatedText = $.trim(container.text()); | |
| var overflowRatio = container.height() / maxHeight; |