Ellipsis (…) is a character which indicates that the content is to wide. There are many solutions to truncate the text and show an ellipsis: in javascript and css. I want to share my humble function which extends the String.prototype: [sourcecode language=“javascript”]String.prototype.ellipsize = function(maxLength) { maxLength = maxLength || 100; if (this.length <= maxLength) { return this; } var text = this.toString().replace(/[\r\n]/g, “”), max = maxLength, min = maxLength - 20, elipsized, tryExtract = function () { var regex = new RegExp("^.