jtextshorten is a simple text truncation plugin. jtextshorten will prevent text spilling over when applied to a large block of text. jtextshorten can be used with best in place and can be applied to block of text which is wrapped by best in place.

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Default Settings

$('.jt-default').shortened();

By default, jtextshorten will truncate after 300 characters and add See more and See less links after truncation.

Custom Settings

$('.jt-limitchar').shortened({limitChars: 100});

In the example above, the character limit is overwritten from 300 to 100 and truncation is applied after it. You may change the settings at any time by passing an object to shortened.

• limitChars (Default: 300) The number of characters to be displayed before truncating.
• moreText (Default: See more) The string value to be displayed for view more link.
• lessText (Default: See less) The string value to be displayed for view less link.