Question

I’m looking for a way to use jQuery to do what I can do in php with wordwrap() (http://php.net/manual/en/function.wordwrap.php)

I would use php but I need the wrapping to happen dynamically after the dom is loaded–

I am not familiar enough with jQuery to write this sort of function from scratch and I have run a few google and stack searches trying to find a premade plugin or something that’s done it already.

Any ideas? Or perhaps a starting place?

Thanks!

EDIT:
for clarification I need to be able to add html at the line breaks (</p><p>, for example)–

as php :

wordwrap($text, 8, "</p><p>", true);

Answer 1

http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/wordwrap-for-javascript/

function wordwrap( str, width, brk, cut ) {
     brk = brk || '\n';
     width = width || 75;
     cut = cut || false;

     if (!str) { return str; }

     var regex = '.{1,' +width+ '}(\\s|$)' + (cut ? '|.{' +width+ '}|.+$' : '|\\S+?(\\s|$)');

     return str.match( RegExp(regex, 'g') ).join( brk );
}