Hey folks, I took up the challenge of Steffen Rusitschka to convert his Ellipsis code from Prototype to jQuery. Unfortunately I decided to do this at the end of my work day as a little aside, and haven't managed to crack it yet - so I'm posting what I have so far to see if anyone can fix it - My demo is here: http://dev.digitalspaghetti.me.uk/ellipsis/
His original code is here: http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/08/ellipsis-or-truncate-with-dots-via-javascript/ And here is what I have so far (please note it uses the Dimensions plugin): (function($){ $.fn.ellipsis = function(){ $(this).css({marginRight: '-10000px'}); var w = $(this).width() - 10000; var t = $(this).html(); $(this).html('<span>'+ $(this).html() +'</span>'); while (t.length> 0 && $(this).children().width()>= w) { t = t.substr(0, t.length - 1); $(this).children().html(t + "..."); } } })(jQuery); I did a console.log on 't' inside the while, and it does remove the characters one by one, but doesn't seem to stop. If anyone can figure it out (probably easy but I've had a long day), you get the cookie. It's also very slow, so if you can figure out a way to speed it up, that would be handy too. -- Tane Piper http://digitalspaghetti.me.uk This email is: [ ] blogable [ x ] ask first [ ] private
