react-middle-ellipsis

React Middle Ellipsis

Check out the demo.

Adding ellipses to the end of long text is cool. But not always! Sometimes the end of the text contains vital information, particularly for URLs or filenames.

This React component is designed with that use case in mind.

Install

yarn add react-middle-ellipsis

Usage

Once imported, you can then wrap any element with <MiddleEllipsis>. This will compute the width of the surrounding parent node. Then, it will look for a child node whose class is constrainedChild: it will use this element to compute the width of the child, and then shorten the text element whose class is constrainedEllipsis to fit within the parent.

The component re-computes things if the browser window is resized, too!

Why do we have both constrainedChild and constrainedEllipsis? Because we want BOTH to fit within the parent, but only one of them should be ellipse'd. This way, things such as icons or images won't be ellipsed.

import React, { Component } from "react";
import MiddleEllipsis from "react-middle-ellipsis";

const Component = props => {
  return (
    <div style={{ width: "350px", whiteSpace: "nowrap" }}>
      <MiddleEllipsis>
        <span className="constrainedChild">
          Don't ellipse me.{" "}
          <span className="constrainedEllipse">
            I am some long text that should be ellipsed in the middle because
            the end contains important stuff.
          </span>
        </span>
      </MiddleEllipsis>
    </div>
  );
};

export default Component;

Development

Notes for developing this component.

yarn run start in this directory and separately also in /example. This will live reload any changes made in /src.

Change the version number in package.json and npm publish once complete.

License

MIT © bluepeter