How to limit inner text of div to 175 characters?

Question

I have a div area that has an arbitrary number of characters. I want to limit the amount of characters that show up in there to 175 characters. I mostly found exaple on how to do this for a input text box or text area, but not a div. Can anyone help with this?

This is my code I am trying to limit to 175 characters:

<div class="some-area">
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
</div>

Answer 1

You can use the the form of text() that takes a function and write something like:

$("div.some-area").text(function(index, currentText) {
    return currentText.substr(0, 175);
});