How can I limit the anchor text below to show only 50 characters?
echo '<td style="" class="pointlink"><span class="pointlink"><a href="http://'.$rowad["1site"].'">'.$rowad["1site"].'</a></td>'; 
- 2substr() is the function you wantuser557846– user5578462012-09-03 21:01:34 +00:00Commented Sep 3, 2012 at 21:01
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Alternatively, you could use CSS:
.pointlink { width: 150px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; } Adjust the width as needed, and an ellipsis will be automatically be used to cut off the text.
answered Sep 3, 2012 at 21:02
Niet the Dark Absol
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msEmmaMays
Upvoting - because you would have ellipsis to show truncation and this can be dynamically resized based on the size of the page.
msEmmaMays
Supported by all major browsers: w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_text-overflow.asp
msEmmaMays
here is a better one by version - IE6 supported it - how high are your standards? caniuse.com/text-overflow
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You can use the substr function to cut the text down to 50 characters
function cut_text( $text, $len ) { return strlen( $text ) > $len ? substr( $text, 0, $len ) + '...' : $text; } echo '<td style="" class="pointlink"><span class="pointlink"><a href="http://'.$rowad["1site"].'">' . cut_text( $rowad["1site"], 50 ) . '</a></td>'; 
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msEmmaMays
Nice - but you should use '…' to get a real one '…' instead of '...' - the point is to save space after all :-) (LOL - that looks a lot bigger in the edit box...)
You can use substr function, like
echo '<td style="" class="pointlink"><span class="pointlink"><a href="http://'.$rowad["1site"].'">'.substr($rowad["1site"],0,50).'</a></td>';
