README.md

jQuery-Dotter

This is a light jQuery Plugin - 'Dotter'

Whatever the given font-size and how long the content is, make content words are not out of bounds and add '...' or other custom tail after the words. And this tool can also handle multi-lines block.

This provide a solution of handling text overflow with ellipsis without using CSS3.

Install

bower install jquery-dotter

Usage

give the target element

$(element).Dotter();

Or with options

$(element).Dotter({tail: '...(read more)', multiLine: true});

Options

name	default value	description
tail	'...'	the tail follow after the text
multiLine	false	set to true to handle with multi-lines
Example

---

Here is a div tag or another tag you want which wrapped a string '123@&;/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',

<div>123@&;/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz</div>

the div's css give the font-size and width you want:

div {
	    width: 165px;
		font-size: 19px;
		background: red;
}

and you want the string to fit the wrapper and add '...' behind the string, you can just simply add

$('div').Dotter();

to your code.

result will be like this:

With adding options

{multiLine: true, tail: '...(read more)'}

Will be like this(this example changed the text, don't mind.)

License

Licensed under the MIT License