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https://github.com/micjamking/Succinct

A tiny jQuery plugin for truncating multiple lines of text
https://github.com/micjamking/Succinct

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Succinct
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> A *tiny* jQuery plugin for truncating multiple lines of text

## How does it work?
Succinct shortens your text to a specified size, and then adds an ellipsis to the end.

## Demo
Live Demo: http://micjamking.github.io/succinct/

## Usage
Specify the elements that you would like to truncate as a selector, and then set the size parameter to the amount you would like to see.
For example, if you would like to truncate all elements with a specific class, ie. `

` to 120 characters...

```html

$(function(){
$('.truncate').succinct({
size: 120
});
});

```
By default, the plugin truncates text to 240 characters.

To change the ellipsis to an HTML unicode arrow "→"...

```html

$(function(){
$('.truncate').succinct({
omission: '→'
});
});

```

By default, the plugin also removes the set of 32 ASCII special characters at the end of words, ie. `! " # $` and so on. To disable this behavior...

```html

$(function(){
$('.truncate').succinct({
ignore: false
});
});

```

## Details
* *Succinct is < 0.6kb minified
* You'll need a copy of [jQuery](http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js) to run this plugin
* Suggestions, comments, or creative insults: [add an issue](https://github.com/micjamking/succinct/issues/new) or [fork the repo](https://github.com/micjamking/succinct/fork).

## Copyright
[MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) Copyright (c) 2014 Mike King ([@micjamking](http://twitter.com/micjamking))