New jQuery plugin: CSS3 text-overflow

Posted on Sunday June 28 2009

This new jQuery plugin implements a simplified version of the CSS3 text-overflow property, which allows stylesheet authors to specify how and where text should be clipped. This is usually done by adding an ellipsis character "…" or three dots at the point the text should be cut off. Unfortunately, not all browser support this CSS property, and this plugin was designed to simulate it when the property is not natively available. The plugin is basically a rewrite of an existing jQuery text-overflow plugin, with the goal of being faster and more reliable (for example, one of the optimizations is that it uses a binary search to find the correct clipping point, instead of a linear search.)