Tag: HTML

CSS can only add ellipsis to a single line of text. Here’s how to do it in Javascript using lodash:

// Update wrapping text to limit the number of lines.
var maxLines = 2;
var textEls = document.getElementsByClassName('text-els-class');
var textMaxH = Math.ceil(textEls[0].getBoundingClientRect().height) * maxLines;

_.forEach(textEls, function(el) {

    el.style.whiteSpace = 'normal';

    var elH = el.getBoundingClientRect().height;
    var isOverflow = elH > textMaxH;
    var text = el.innerHTML;

    // Remove the last word until the height is within bounds.
    while (elH > textMaxH) {

        text = (text
            .split(' ')
            .slice(0,-1)
            .join(' ')
        );
        el.innerHTML = text;
        elH = el.getBoundingClientRect().height;
    }

    if (isOverflow) {
        title.innerHTML += ' ...';
        title.style.maxHeight = titleMaxH + 'px';
    }
});