Truncate « String « Javascript Data Type Q&A

1. Truncate leading zeros of a string in Javascript    stackoverflow.com

I have a textbox in Javascript. When I enter '0000.00' in the textbox, I want to know how to convert that to only having one leading zero, such as '0.00'. Please anybody ...

2. Truncate a string straight javascript    stackoverflow.com

I'd like to truncate a dynamically loaded string using straight javascript. It's a url, so there are no spaces, and I obviously don't care about word boundaries, just characters. ...

3. parse a string and truncate it    stackoverflow.com

I want to break the following string at the word To and then truncate the email address that follows at 15 characters using JavaScript. This is the sentence:

Please email this card ...

4. Set x.innerHTML as INPUT truncating value string    stackoverflow.com

I have:

function edit(recRef)
{
var recID=recRef+'_what';
var x=document.getElementById(recID);
var y=(x.innerHTML);
alert(y);
x.innerHTML="<INPUT type='text' value="+y+" />";
}

5. truncate a string in the middle with javascript    stackoverflow.com

anyone have a handy method to truncate a string in the middle? Something like:

truncate ('abcdefghi', 8);

'abc...hi'

• if the string is <= maxLength, return the string
• otherwise, ...

6. Truncate string in JavaScript    stackoverflow.com

I have a url as string in javascript like follows :

http://localhost:8080/Blah.ff?param=1&param=2...

?param=1&param=2....

7. Truncating a string depending on the size of its container    sitepoint.com

Hi, I want to truncate a string using javascript and have found several methods for doing this on Google which involve entering an arbitrary number of words to have it truncated to. However, does anybody know of a solution that takes into account the size of the text and it's container? So that the Javascript will truncate the text at the ...

8. How do I Truncate Strings?    sitepoint.com