React-dotdotdot

Cross-browser multiline text ellipsis for react

Inspired by: https://github.com/BeSite/jQuery.dotdotdot

Internally uses: https://www.npmjs.com/package/clamp-js

Installation

npm install --save react-dotdotdot

Sample usage

import React from 'react'
import Dotdotdot from 'react-dotdotdot'

...

render() {
	return (
		<div>
			<Dotdotdot clamp={3}>
				<p>
					Long, long <br />
					content,<br />
					3 lines <br />
					will be shown.
				</p>
			</Dotdotdot>
		</div>
	)
}

Dotdotdot props:

clamp (Number | String | ‘auto’). This controls where and when to clamp the text of an element. Submitting a number controls the number of lines that should be displayed. Second, you can submit a CSS value (in px or em) that controls the height of the element as a String. Finally, you can submit the word ‘auto’ as a string. Auto will try to fill up the available space with the content and then automatically clamp once content no longer fits. This last option should only be set if a static height is being set on the element elsewhere (such as through CSS) otherwise no clamping will be done.

useNativeClamp: [default: false] Use -webkit-line-clamp available in Webkit (Chrome, Safari) only.

splitOnChars: [default: ['.', '-', '–', '—', ' ']] Split on sentences (periods), hypens, en-dashes, em-dashes, and words (spaces).

animate: [default: false] animated clamp

truncationChar: The character to insert at the end of the HTML element after truncation is performed. This defaults to an ellipsis (…). useNativeClamp overrides it to default.

truncationHTML: String of HTML to use instead of truncationChar

tagName: [default: div] (String). The type of HTML tag which will wrap the component’s content.

Notes

React-dotdotdot is simple plugin, if you need more functionality, consider using react-truncate https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-truncate

Known issues:

• react-dotdotdot does not work with text containers with nested markup.
• padding-bottom CSS rule breaks clamp
• line-height units might be important for React-dotdotdot. We recommend px over em

Changelog

1.3.1

• Update TypeScript definition to add missing props (thanks @tuxracer)
• round line-height value from computed float value - IE11 fix (thanks @YoonjiJang)

1.3.0

• useNativeClamp prop is set to false by default, it was causing some issues.
• Comments are not counted as a text anymore
• Remove Github’s potential security vulnerability with react-dom

1.2.4

• Added TypeScript typings (thanks @vojty and @feimosi)

1.2.3

• Add the option to choose a tag other than div (thanks @Kalita-Roman)
• Fix demo on Firefox
• Added .npmignore to limit package size

1.2.2

• Revert: Fix break word for long text
• Update documentation

1.2.1

• Update documentation
• Re-trigger clamp on window.load
• Allow for all params to passed to clamp-js (splitOnChars, animate, etc)

1.2.0

• Fix word breaking for long text (issues #21 and #15; Thanks @krzysztofczernek).
• calculate correct height for many childs + clamp: ‘auto’ (thanks @rurquia)
• Update dependencies to support react 16 (thanks @emersonbroga)

1.0.17

• Support for IE11, Edge and Firefox (thanks, @kkwiatkowski)

1.0.16

• Remove clamp-js from package.json dependencies, as it’s not maintained anymore.
• Bugfix for TypeError: elem.lastChild is null in Firefox.