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What action view method turns this:

asdf asdf aslkj flkjasdfljf lkasdf asdlfkjsd flkajsdf ldkffljasf aslkfj asldfkjasdf nlfkajlskf lasdfkjaslfdj asl;fkaslf asdlfsalf

Into this:

asdf asdf aslkj flkjasdfljf lkasdf ...

Thanks!

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jko170 wrote:

What action view method turns this:

asdf asdf aslkj flkjasdfljf lkasdf asdlfkjsd flkajsdf ldkffljasf aslkfj asldfkjasdf nlfkajlskf lasdfkjaslfdj asl;fkaslf asdlfsalf

Into this:

asdf asdf aslkj flkjasdfljf lkasdf ...

Browsers do that these days:

http://www.google.com/search?q=css+overflow+ellipses

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Wouldn’t that only work on IE?

Nathan

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truncate does this, but i does not split by word, only by No. of Characters:

if you need it p split at word boundaries, have a look at this code snippet, you can use it as a custom Helper Method: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/804

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Thanks for that snippit. I have been wanting to figure out how to do this and have been just too lazy to do it.