I really like the plugin as a matter of fact I will be using for my next project. I realized that succinct only truncates the desired text it doesn't a read more link that can allow readers finish reading the article. I do like to mention that I av not fully checked it out so if the read more function is already there please ignore else please update. Thanks.

I would love to see a truncate of text without space. Something like a url can be very long. I have a table with logs and some urls are too long, currently I just get "..." but I would like to see "/home?something=sldvjhsljk..."

Hello,

Im trying to use your great plugin on links. For example if one client have uploaded a file that has a very long name then my application will create a link with a very long text that the end user needs to click in order to open the file.

I would like to use your plugin to shorten that text with "..." but it does seem to work on Lorem Ipsum Lorem Ipsum Lorem Ipsum Lorem Ipsum

What am i doing wrong? Code im using is $('.fileLink').succinct({ size: 120 });

Best Regards Ivan

Nice plugin!

Playing around with .succinct today - calling it from a javascript media query. As the query sets a smaller .succinct size the textDefault truncates nicely. If the query tries to set a larger .succinct size it appears as if the textDefault is no longer based on the original but rather on the current. As a result, the only way to view a larger truncated length is to refresh the browser.

Seems like you figured this out with the live demo input button. It would be great to have a reset we can call into the .succint plugin that works similarly.

Haven't quite figured that out yet though.

It would be nice to be able to show how many characters are allowed, and how many characters remain available. For example, someone would be typing in a textbox to leave a comment, and it would be useful to limit the characters in their comment.

Currently, succinct strips out inline HTML tags. The plugin should recognize html tags, and if the closing tag is past the character count for which the text is being truncated, it needs to add the appropriate closing tag back in.

JSLint warns to use the function form of "use strict". Moving it within the function wrapper helps to not interfere with other scripts when concatenating.

Ref. http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/12/14/strict-mode-is-coming-to-town/

By default, the omission is three dots (faux ellipses).

Use case: "The man in the barn unlocked the door to the animal cage. He continued to do this to several other random doors in town... (read more)"

Name of the "omission" option mimics Rails' truncate() method option of the same name - http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#method-i-truncate

I noticed in the demo (http://micjamking.github.io/succinct/) that if you use the character count as 30 it leaves a "," at the end. this bothered me so i made a really simple addition that matches a regex at the end and removes characters like:

*,.{[(<¦¬~^

this is set as an option so the user can change, remove or whatever. if set to 'false' it wont try to remove.

Sorry about the tab/space issues. not a lot really changed, but my IDE changed all the spacing.

The demo is not working.

_{Also it would be helpful if the demo indicated which unit the "size" field expects (which I eventually realized is characters, not lines or px height as I would have expected.)}

adding onTruncate callback so additional function can be executed, I use this approach mainly to add bootstrap tooltip, only when the text got truncated

Handy plugin. It would be more usable if the plugin added a title attribute to the element as soon as text gets truncated. The value of the title attribute is the full text (not truncated). This mimics most browser's default behavior (if text gets truncated by CSS): they show a tooltip on hover displaying the full text string.