jquery plugin to "see more" text

Question

i am looking for a jQuery plugin that does this:

original:

i am such a nice guy that just needs to become a lot more concise.... help me... help me...

needed

i am such a nice guy that... [see more]

Requirements:

• cut by word, not character length
• very light and simple, no mess needed!

Answer 1

I just hacked this together.

You can use it by calling trunc on all of the elements you want to have a see more label on. You pass it an argument of the maximum number of words in the un-expanded text.

Example:

// truncate all text in elements with class "truncateme" to be 10 words or less
// (until you click the "see more" link)
$(".truncateme").trunc(10);