Text Truncator
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CSS text-overflow: ellipsis Hides Text — It Doesn't Remove It: When to Truncate at Display vs Data Layer
Why Truncating Text at "Exactly 100 Characters" Is Harder Than It Looks: UTF-8, Word Boundaries, and HTML
Truncating at exactly 100 characters sounds simple — until you're splitting a multibyte UTF-8 sequence and producing invalid text, cutting mid-word and leaving "fo" dangling, or cutting HTML and leaving unclosed tags. Here's the byte vs code point vs grapheme cluster distinction, the word-boundary backtracking algorithm, why HTML truncation requires an actual parser (not string slicing), and why your ellipsis length has to come out of the character budget before you cut.
Pagination, Infinite Scroll, or "Read More": Three Answers to "This Content Is Too Long" and When Each Fits
"Read more" links, pagination, and infinite scroll are three different answers to "content is longer than the space available" — each with different SEO, accessibility, and UX trade-offs. Here's where each fits best, why infinite scroll's footer-reachability problem is well-documented, and how hybrid approaches (load-more buttons, infinite scroll with History-API pagination underneath) combine their benefits.
Truncation Bugs: Database VARCHAR Silent Data Loss, CSS Overflow, and Windows Path Length Limits
MySQL silently truncates strings that exceed VARCHAR column lengths — no error, just missing data. Here's database silent truncation, CSS text-overflow and multi-line clamping, the accessibility problem with truncated UI text, API response truncation flags, and the Windows 260-character path length problem.
Content Truncation Rules: How Every Platform Cuts Your Text — and How to Write for It
Every platform truncates differently — email subject lines at 50 characters, push notifications at 80, meta descriptions at 155. Here's the truncation rules for major platforms, how to implement word-boundary truncation in code, and using truncation as a deliberate writing technique.
Text Truncator — Shorten Any Text to a Set Character or Word Limit
Learn how smart text truncation works, why word boundary cuts matter, how to account for ellipsis length, and how to use a free text truncator for meta descriptions, database fields, and notification previews.
