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Rails
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What action view method turns this:

asdf asdf aslkj flkjasdfljf lkasdf
asdlfkjsd flkajsdf ldkffljasf aslkfj
asldfkjasdf nlfkajlskf lasdfkjaslfdj
asl;fkaslf asdlfsalf

Into this:

asdf asdf aslkj flkjasdfljf lkasdf …

Thanks!

2

On 5/21/07, Phlip [email protected] wrote:

Browsers do that these days:

css overflow ellipses - Google Search

Wouldn’t that only work on IE?

Nathan

3

jko170 wrote:

What action view method turns this:

asdf asdf aslkj flkjasdfljf lkasdf
asdlfkjsd flkajsdf ldkffljasf aslkfj
asldfkjasdf nlfkajlskf lasdfkjaslfdj
asl;fkaslf asdlfsalf

Into this:

asdf asdf aslkj flkjasdfljf lkasdf …

Browsers do that these days:

http://www.google.com/search?q=css+overflow+ellipses

–
Phlip
Test Driven Ajax (on Rails) [Book]
“Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)”
assert_xpath, assert_javascript, & assert_ajax

4

truncate does this, but i does not split by word, only by No. of
Characters:

if you need it p split at word boundaries, have a look at this code
snippet, you can use it as a custom Helper Method:
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/804

5

Thanks for that snippit. I have been wanting to figure out how to do
this
and have been just too lazy to do it.