Ellipsis in the middle of a text (Mac style)

Question

I need to implement ellipsis (\"...\") in the middle of a text within a resizable element. Here is what it might look like. So,

\"Lorem ipsum do         


        

Answer 1

Here's the shortest bit I could find which replaces 3 characters in the middle with ....

function shorten(s, max) {
  return s.length > max ? s.substring(0, (max / 2) - 1) + '...' + s.substring(s.length - (max / 2) + 2, s.length) : s
}