How to limit the length of text in a paragraph [duplicate]

Question

I have a paragraph as below, which may be of any length:

Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines is a book written by Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan which argues that India's integrity is being undermined.

I want it to appear as:

Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines is a book written by Rajiv Malhotra...

below is the code which populates description in my website:

currently description goes to any no. of line based on product, i need to limit this to 3 lines.

Answer 1

If you want to use html and css only, your best bet would probably be to use something like:

p {      width: 250px;      white-space: nowrap;      overflow: hidden;      text-overflow: ellipsis; } 

Here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/nchW8/ source: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/truncate-string-with-ellipsis/

If you can use javascript you can use this function:

function truncateText(selector, maxLength) {     var element = document.querySelector(selector),         truncated = element.innerText;      if (truncated.length > maxLength) {         truncated = truncated.substr(0,maxLength) + '...';     }     return truncated; } //You can then call the function with something like what i have below. document.querySelector('p').innerText = truncateText('p', 107); 

Here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/sgjGe/1/