Clamps (ie. cuts off) an HTML element's content by adding ellipsis to it if the content inside is too long.

Sample Usage

//Single line
$clamp(myHeader, {clamp: 1});

//Multi-line
$clamp(myHeader, {clamp: 3});

//Auto-clamp based on available height
$clamp(myParagraph, {clamp: 'auto'});

//Auto-clamp based on a fixed element height
$clamp(myParagraph, {clamp: '35px'});

The $clamp method is the primary way of interacting with Clamp.js, and it takes two arguments. The first is the element which should be clamped, and the second is an Object with options in JSON notation.

The algorithms splits the text into words (separated by spaces), and searches using binary search for the best split index. All words after this are removed and replaced with a truncationChar. For the last word, the characters set in removeTrainingChars will be trimmed from the end.

Options

clamp (Number | String | 'auto'). This controls where and when to clamp the text of an element. Submitting a number controls the number of lines that should be displayed. Second, you can submit a CSS value (in px or em) that controls the height of the element as a String. Finally, you can submit the word 'auto' as a string. Auto will try to fill up the available space with the content and then automatically clamp once content no longer fits. This last option should only be set if a static height is being set on the element elsewhere (such as through CSS) otherwise no clamping will be done.

useNativeClamp (Boolean). Enables or disables using the native -webkit-line-clamp in a supported browser (ie. Webkit). It defaults to true if you're using Webkit, but it can behave wonky sometimes so you can set it to false to use the JavaScript- based solution.

truncationChar (String). The character to insert at the end of the HTML element after truncation is performed. This defaults to an ellipsis (…).

removeTrailingChars (String). The characters that will get removed from the last word. This defaults to ',.;:!?-'

#Deprecated Options

truncationHTML (String).

splitOnChars (Array).

animate (Boolean).