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

Replace div with the correct identifier for your content:

$("div").text($(this).text().substr(0, 175)+'...');

Remove the ellipses from the end if desired. I would recommend leaving them to let your users know that the text was shortened. If you are just trying to limit the text to 175 without any notice, then you may choose to remove them in that case as well.