JavaScript - Visible Text of a DIV

Question

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| This is my text inside a div and I want the overf|low of the text to be cut
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Answer 1

You're trying to force a CSS problem into JavaScript. Put the hammer away and get out a screwdriver. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_all_you_have_is_a_hammer,_everything_looks_like_a_nail

Solving the answer of character count is probably irrelevant if you take a step back. The last character could be only partially visible, and character count is drastically different given font size changes, the difference of width between W an i, etc. Probably the div's width is more important than the character count in the true problem.

If you're still stuck on figuring out the characters visible, put a span inside the div around the text, use the css provided in other answers to this question, and then in JavaScript trim one character at a time off the string until the span's width is less than the div's width. And then watch as your browser freezes for a few seconds every time you do that to a big paragraph.