Insert ellipsis (…) into HTML tag if content too wide

Question

I have a webpage with an elastic layout that changes its width if the browser window is resized.

In this layout there are headlines (h2) that will have

Answer 1

Here is a nice widget/plugin library which has ellipsis built in: http://www.codeitbetter.co.uk/widgets/ellipsis/ All you need to do it reference the library and call the following:

 
 
   Some text here that's longer than 10 characters.