How to hide/show more text within a certain length (like youtube)

Question

I want to have a text to only be a certain amount of characters/length and after that length, I want to put a link to reveal the full length of the text.

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Answer 1

For those who just want a simple Bootstrap solution.

    

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Here's a CodePen example.

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