How to limit inner text of div to 175 characters?

Question

I have a div area that has an arbitrary number of characters. I want to limit the amount of characters that show up in there to 175 characters. I mostly found exaple on how

Answer 1

You can use the the form of text() that takes a function and write something like:

$("div.some-area").text(function(index, currentText) {
    return currentText.substr(0, 175);
});