How to trim content of element and put “…” if the characters go over a certain limit?

Question

I would like to trim a part of the if it is too long. This will make sure the table doesn\'t get messed up. All the data in the following table is re

Answer 1

Here is a little snippet that I used to see if an artists name was over 33 characters

// Elipses 
$('.artistName').each(function() {
    var that = $(this),
        title = that.text(),
        chars = title.length;

    if (chars > 33) {
        var newTitle = title.substring(0, 30) + "...";
        that.text(newTitle);
    }
});

Just replace the .artistName selector with the one for your table cell and update the character counts to reflect what you want.