jQuery Shorten. Automatically cuts off long text to fit in a space, with a custom ending you choose.

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Updates

September 2013

Bower compatibility. Designate v0.9.0. jQuery not included anymore. T… Sep 22
Add radix to parseInt. Thanks @pdjota! Sep 22
Finally a proper readme! Sep 22

April 2012

Some refactoring for efficiency Apr 19
test.html: Wraps the the shorten calls in a function so I can test re… Apr 19
Implement @chrisbartley use case: Re-run shorten after changing the t… Apr 19

February 2011

Updated documentation... Feb 1
Aaand here's the minified version ;) Feb 1
Merged gonchuki's canvas detection fix into master. Thanks gonchuki! Feb 1

January 2011

fix broken canvas detection, now works on IE8 and lower Jan 31
Moar better tests! A lot of different and common use cases are tested… Jan 29
- Test for Canvas Text support, not just for Canvas support. Jan 28
- Fix: Don't use CSS text-overflow method if user has defined a width… Jan 28
* Potentially breaking changes * Jan 28

December 2010

Canvas method: The order of properties in the font declaration was wr… Dec 20
Fixed infinite loop that occured in some cases: Dec 17
Removed accidental global var (text). Simplified initial var declarat… Dec 17
tooltip functionality was missing completely in the code. No idea how… Dec 10

November 2010

Amended documentation. Nov 20
The new jquery files were not added. Hmm.. Nov 20