We can play a game of Checkers or Go Fish for ownership rights ;) I actually scoped out Expander this past weekend for some ideas. Regular Expressions don't exactly bring about resounding joy in my voice, but in order to get this to work I had to go down that route. http://www.regexpal.com is my friend.
Keep on keeping on with the Expander plugin -- we may join forces in the future sometime :) Brian On Feb 11, 12:51 pm, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excellent job, Brian! > > Seems we have some overlap, which I'm sure is my fault because your > plugin was around long before mine was > (http://plugins.learningjquery.com/expander/ > ). If only I had known before I got to work on mine... Oh well. It'll > be fun to poke around the truncate plugin's code to see how similar > our approaches were. > > Cheers, > > --Karl > _________________ > Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com > > On Feb 11, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Giant Jam Sandwich wrote: > > > > > This has been a long time coming, and is a major update for the > > plugin. Previously, if you decided to truncate a string, it would > > strip all the HTML from that string. Essentially, it worked by slicing > > the string in two, and by hiding the second half. The new version uses > > a series of regular expressions, and maintains two copies of the > > string. I won't go into all the technical details, but I threw some > > pretty nasty HTML at it, and it seemed to work well. Empty HTML tags > > after the truncate will be removed, but any HTML closing tag after the > > truncate associated with an HTML opening tag before the truncate will > > remain. So if you truncated mid list item, formatting would still be > > maintained for the list. > > > Give it a go, and let me know if you discover any bugs. Thanks! > > >http://www.reindel.com/truncate/ > > > Brian Reindel
