I haven't tried it, but in the plugin near line 25 instead of
myStr.length you could try something like $this.text(). So that it
will check the length of the text instead of the innerHTML. But it may
need some more hacking, I don't know.
On Oct 6, 11:40 pm, Zachary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does no one have any answers to this question...It has been quite a
> while and I could really use some suggestions. Thanks.
>
> On Oct 3, 9:21 am, zacharyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have been working with Brian Reindel's Truncate plug-in....trying to get
> > ti
> > to do what I need. It seems simple enough, but I continue to struggle. The
> > plug-in is designed to truncate the html content within a tag to a certain
> > length...taking into consideration the whole last word. It works
> > great...however I need to truncate a list item that contains both text and a
> > link; like so:
>
> > <li>This is the text that leads to: # A link that needs to be truncated
> > .</li>
>
> > The function currently looks like this:
>
> > $('li a').truncate( {
> > length: 35,
> > minTrail: 10,
> > moreText: '',
> > lessText: '',
> > ellipsisText: "..."
> > });
>
> > But this obviously only takes care of the link...if the text behind it is
> > too long it will still push the truncated link down to the next line...If I
> > try to do the li it completely removes the link tag no matter its
> > length....and if I try to change the selector in the plugin from
> > $(this).html() to $(this).text() it removes the anchor tag
> > completely....though it works just fine.
>
> > Basically I need some way to keep my anchor tag in operation, yet take the
> > whole text contained within the li into consideration when determining where
> > to truncate. Your help is much appreciated...Please let me know if you have
> > any questions to further clarify my problem. Thanks.
>
> > btw...the Plugin is located here in case you'd like to see it or use it
> > yourself:http://www.reindel.com/truncate/
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