i am querying text from a DB. if the text ends to be too long, I want to be able to wrap the text after, say, 400 characters and display a “…” at the end.
how can it be done?
i am querying text from a DB. if the text ends to be too
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i am querying text from a DB. if the text ends to be too long, I want to be able to wrap the text after, say, 400 characters and display a “…” at the end.
how can it be done?
I would suggest you don’t do it in your query. You are probably rendering in a proportional font which means 400 characters is never the same size. “…” with a lot of white-space behind it is kinda awkward.
You can query the entire field and cut off using CSS (with limited browser support) with: