Question

I have a text in a h2 tag that I’m limiting its character count with by:

$(function() {
  $('h2.questionTitle a').each(function() {
  var $this = $(this);
  $this.text( $this.text().slice(0,80);        
  });
});

However, I also want to modify the code so that if the character count was sliced at 80 chars, add “…” to the end of it. How could I do this?

Answer 1

$('h2').each(function() {

    var $this = $(this);

    if ($this.text().length > 80) {

        $this.text($this.text().slice(0, 80) + '...');
    }
});

http://jsfiddle.net/yGqSK/