Ellipsis in the middle of a text (Mac style)

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In the HTML, put the full value in a custom data-* attribute like

<span data-original="your string here"></span>

Then assign load and resize event listeners to a JavaScript function which will read the original data attribute and place it in the innerHTML of your span tag. Here is an example of the ellipsis function:

function start_and_end(str) {
  if (str.length > 35) {
    return str.substr(0, 20) + '...' + str.substr(str.length-10, str.length);
  }
  return str;
}

Adjust the values, or if possible, make them dynamic, if necessary for different objects. If you have users from different browsers, you can steal a reference width from a text by the same font and size elsewhere in your dom. Then interpolate to an appropriate amount of characters to use.

A tip is also to have an abbr-tag on the … or who message to make the user be able to get a tooltip with the full string.

<abbr title="simple tool tip">something</abbr>

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