Or you can apply a CSS with overflow: ellipsis; whichever fits you.
On 14 Nov 2015 17:10, "Simon Charette" <charett...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jorgue,
>
> You can simply define a `list_display` method
> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.list_display>
> that truncates your text if required and append an ellipsis.
>
> e.g.
>
> class FooAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
>     list_display = ['text_field_ellipsis']
>
>     def text_field_ellipsis(self, obj):
>         if len(obj.text_field) > max_length:
>             return "%s..." % obj.text_field[:max_length]
>         return obj.text_field
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
> Le samedi 14 novembre 2015 10:49:09 UTC-5, Jorge Fernandez-de-Cossio-Diaz
> a écrit :
>>
>> A column of my Django admin interface sometimes has too much text. When
>> this happens, I would like to replace the last part of the text with "...",
>> so that the column width doesn't gets past a maximum character count. How
>> can I do this?
>>
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