Question

I have a WYSIWYG TEXT EDITOR contained in ID = ‘bunchofstuff’, which contains text with a bunch of HTML (all types of tags).

Example:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean consectetuer. Etiam venenatis.

Using JQUERY,

• Part 1 – How can I get the text in the ID bunchofstuff, strip out all the HTML so I just have TEXT
• Part 2 – If it’s over 40 characters of text, display the 40 characters with a … at the end
• Part 3 – If it’s under 40 characters, just show the line of text w/o … trailing at the end.

Thanks for the ideas.

Answer 1

var text = $('bunchofstuff').text();
if (text.length) > 40) {
  text = text.substring(0, 37) + '...';
}
alert(text);