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1. What is a truncated text?
2. How do you truncate content in HTML?

What is a truncated text?

TEXT TRUNCATION IS THE PROCESS OF shortening text content. If text is truncated, it is usually followed with 3 periods called an ellipsis. On webpages, there are several ways to shorten text content so that it fits within a certain designated area.

How do you truncate content in HTML?

Create a function truncate(str, maxlength) that checks the length of the str and, if it exceeds maxlength – replaces the end of str with the ellipsis character "…" , to make its length equal to maxlength . The result of the function should be the truncated (if needed) string.