HHaircut trims text down to fit into its container.

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Demo

Usage

First, you will need to change up some of your HTML. Haircut expects an element with the full text contained within the title attribute like so:

<abbr title="My excrutiatingly long string"></abbr>

You will then need to wrap that and call Haircut on the parent element:

<h1><abbr title="My excrutiatingly long string"></abbr></h1>

Initialize by calling .haircut(). If the layout changes and your Haircut element might change, call .stringResize(). Like so:

$('h1').haircut();

$(window).resize(function () {
  $('h1').stringResize();
});

You can also give it a few options:

$('h2').haircut({
  // The more haircut items on the page,
  // the more it jitters during animation.
  // Adding padding reduces jitter but
  // gives you less usable space.
  jitterPadding: 30,

  // Decide which part of the string to trim.
  // Can be "start", "middle" or "end".
  placement: 'middle'
});

It's also recommended that you style 2 CSS selectors: ._LVhaircutExpand and ._LVshowHaircutExpand. If configured, Haircut will overlay the full text when a Haircut string is hovered over. See below for an example.

If the containing element has an anchor tag, that will be brought along for the ride. That way long URLs can be truncated at no expense of usability.

Installation

Just include jquery.haircut.js as a script tag on the page. Bonus points for incorporating it into your asset pipeline.

In Action

Here's a little video of Haircut in action on the LayerVault Directory page.