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Discover how to effortlessly add an ellipsis to hide text and toggle its visibility when clicked using jQuery and CSS. Learn step by step!
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How to Dynamically Add an ... Ellipsis to Text and Show Full Content with jQuery

If you’ve ever wanted to keep your web pages tidy while still providing the option to read more content, you may have encountered the need to add an ... ellipsis to text. This is particularly useful in e-commerce or content-heavy websites where readability and aesthetic presentation are essential. In this post, we’ll explore how you can achieve this effect using jQuery and CSS.

The Problem: Need for Clean and Concise Text Display

On many occasions, we want to display a snippet of text that requires more space than we wish to allocate on a webpage. To tackle this, we can use the ... ellipsis to indicate that there’s more text available. Users can then click a button to reveal the full content, making the interface cleaner and more user-friendly.

The Solution: Using jQuery and CSS

We’ll break down the solution into manageable steps, including both CSS to style the text and jQuery to handle the toggling of the text display.

Step 1: CSS for Ellipsis Effect

First, we need to define some CSS to control how text should display as an ellipsis. We’ll create two styles: one for hiding overflow text in a single line and another for applying an ellipsis when the text exceeds a specified number of lines.

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Step 2: HTML Structure

Next, create a simple HTML structure for your text and the button that users will click to expand or collapse the text.

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Step 3: jQuery for Toggling Text

Finally, implement the jQuery that allows users to toggle between the truncated and full text.

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Demo

In this demo, when the user clicks the button, the text toggles between showing just the beginning (with ...) and the full text without truncation.

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Conclusion

Using these simple techniques, you can effectively manage how much text is displayed on your webpage, keep your designs clean, and give users the option to expand text on demand. This not only improves the aesthetic appeal of your site but also enhances the user experience. So go ahead and implement this feature on your website!

With the tools and methods shared here, you can easily become adept at managing text visibility on your web applications!