Simple plugin that truncates a text either at its end or middle based on a given width or it's elements width. The width calculation takes into account all the original elements css styles like font-size, font-family, font-weight, text-transform, letter-spacing etc. Additionally if the text has been shortened you can set a class to be appended to the element and/or set the "title" attribute to the original text.

$('.class').truncate();

$('.class').truncate({
	width: 'auto',
	token: '…',
	side: 'right',
	multiline: false
});

• width (int) Width to which the text will be shortened [default: auto]
• token (string) Replacement string for the stripped part [default: '…']
• side (string) Side from which shorten. Can either be 'left', 'center', 'right' [default: right]
• addclass (string) Add a class to the truncated strings element [default: false]
• addtitle (bool) Add/Set "title" attribute with original text to the truncated strings element [default: false]
• multiline (bool) Applies truncation to multi-line, wrapped text [default: false]
• assumeSameStyle (bool) When working with multiple elements with the same style, cache the style for improved performance [default: false]

Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Thorsten Basse and contributors

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