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selladurai
selladurai

Reputation: 6789

how to break the long word in html?

I'm creating list dynamically in javascript. I want to break the long word in as dot dot dot(.....). For example, if the word is "Software life cycle development" I want to change it as "Software life cycl....".

And I used "WORD-BREAK:BREAK-ALL;white-space:normal;" My current output is:

Software life cycle development.

Can anyone tell, how to fix this? thanks in advance.

  var parent = document.getElementById('searchlistview');
var listItem = document.createElement('li');
listItem.setAttribute('id', 'listitem_' + listId);
listItem.setAttribute('data-icon', 'false');
listItem.innerHTML = "<img src=" + imagesrc + " class='ui-li-icon ui-li-has-icon'></img>
<a target='_black' data-role='button' href='#' id=" + listId + " name= " + url + " data-theme ='c' rel='external' 
data-inline='true' style='margin-left:0em; WORD-BREAK:BREAK-ALL;white-space:normal; ' >" + searchName + "<p style='margin-top:1px;margin-left:1px;'>
File size: " + fileSize + "</p></a>";
parent.appendChild(listItem);

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4085

Answers (4)

Sudhir Bastakoti
Sudhir Bastakoti

Reputation: 100175

Try:

function wbr(str, num) { 
  return str.replace(RegExp("(\\w{" + num + "})(\\w)", "g"), function(all,text,char){
    return text + "<wbr>" + char;
  });
}

Source: http://ejohn.org/blog/injecting-word-breaks-with-javascript/

Upvotes: 1

Chandra Sekhar
Chandra Sekhar

Reputation: 16516

style="text-overflow: ellipsis;"

will solve the problem.

Upvotes: 1

RageZ
RageZ

Reputation: 27313

You can try this css 

text-overflow:ellipsis;

It would put ... when the text overflow. see this page for your reference.

Upvotes: 4

Pavan
Pavan

Reputation: 4329

see if css ellipsis can help you. You can find more details at

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_text-overflow.asp

http://mattsnider.com/css/css-string-truncation-with-ellipsis/

Upvotes: 3

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