limit text display

@CheJul 07.2005

(I already posted this in css, but I thought i would post it here as well…)

Hey all,

Can anyone help me figure out a way to limit the number of characters to display in anchor text? For example, if I had:

[code=php] <a href=’somepage.html’>this is the text I want to be limited</a> [/code]

and I wanted it to display:
~~[URL=http://someurl.com]~~this is the…[/URL]

How could I do that?

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@buntineJul 07.2005 — #With which technology? I presume your generating the content dynamically, otherwise it would simply be a matter of only typing "this is the...".

Regards.

@CheauthorJul 07.2005 — #yeah, good point. Im using php to generate the page, i ended up writing my own truncate function and calling it when adding the $text variable.

My truncate function looks like this:

[code=php]
 function truncate($word){
 
  for($i=0;$i<5;$i++){
   $trunword.= $word[$i];
  }
  $trunword .= "...".strrchr($word, ".");
  return $trunword;
 }
 [/code]

I call it like this:

[code=php]
 <a href='someurl.com'><?php truncate($linktext) ?></a>
 [/code]

and of course, this would be in some recusive function that genetrated a list. I should've made a clearer example, but it's end of my workday - I'm off. Anywho, thanks for the support! I was hoping there would be some little unknown javascript or attribute trick for limiting text, but i guess thats only for form text components. Ah, well... so be it.

EDIT - I forgot to mention that in this casem, I am iterating through a directory - so the text will have extensions, which is why i add the extension at the end of the trunword var. Heh, wow, I'm really unclear here, hope this helps somebody...

@KorJul 07.2005 — #you mey use the [b]substring(start,end)[/b] method

[code=php]
 <script type="text/javascript">
 var s = 'this is the text I want to be limited';
 onload = function(){
 alert(s.substring(0,11)+'...')
 }
 </script> 
 [/code]

@CheauthorJul 08.2005 — #Heh. Yep, that would've saved me some time, ?. Thanks!

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