[thelist] counting rendered lines of text
sbeam
sbeam at syxyz.net
Thu Jun 14 09:29:25 CDT 2007
Say you have a container of a fixed width with some text in it. Is there
any way to count the number of lines in the text, as rendered?
ie.
<div id="wrapper" style="width: 300px;">
Here is a bunch of text that may be short, may be very long, we don't
know because it comes from user input.
</div>
Basically the design requires this fixed-size block for a list of
preview items, but the request is to only show the first 4 lines, with
an ellipsis and "more" link if needed. AFAIK this isn't possible, we
can only count characters and words, right? which given the variation
in font size and letter width is not reliable...
Sam
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