Question

https://github.com/maranomynet/linkify

I’m using this plugin. It works, and everything’s fine. But is there an option I can plug into it so that if the url length is longer than “X”, then truncate it, and add “…”?

Right now the URLs are so long.

I notice in the demo there is a “handleLinks” callback function, but how do I use that?

Answer 1

You’re right, you can use handleLinks callback function. For example I wrote simple functional that you need:

handleLinks: function (links) {
    for (var i = 0, cnt = links.length, tmpLink; i < cnt; i++) {
        tmpLink = links[i].innerHTML;
        if (tmpLink.length > 10) {
            links[i].innerHTML = tmpLink.substr(0, 10) + '...';
        }
    }
}

It truncates links if they longer than 10 characters. You can modify this script by your needs.