Hey fellow Bubblers! Has anyone been able to truncate a string of words by characters responsively? Right now, Bubble truncates things by words, instead of characters – they don’t even load the whole string when it’s truncated (they automatically truncate it), so I can’t use CSS to manipulate the t…

This is the only thing that I can think of. Is this what you are looking for potentially? I know it is kind of convoluted, but I have used it before and I think it works pretty well. :blush: [image] "Cut off Content" per character instead of per word Tips Bubble’s “Cut of…

Hmm yeah, I just tried this and it seems like it still truncates by the word vs the character Edit: Nvm I used a , instead of . :sweat_smile: Thanks @J805 !

[Screen Recording 2025-01-07 at 11.26.09 AM] Cool, I was going to say, I just did it and it worked. :blush: Glad you got it working. Preview: https://testapp42wcleandb.bubbleapps.io/version-test/truncate_characters_responsively?debug_mode=true Editor: testApp42wCleanDB | Bubble Editor

Yep! It was me reading the character incorrectly :sweat_smile:

Well, either way. Glad you got it working. I had to really dig back to find this solution. I used this back in 2020! :exploding_head: Teamwork!

Yeah 100% bookmarked :joy: I was searching and didn’t find anything – maybe I wasn’t searching the right keywords :sweat_smile:

Yeah. It was really buried and hard to find. Just back in my memory. :blush:

[image] johnny: I can’t use CSS It turns out it’s doable .

Oh interesting! I guess it wasn’t working with CSS because I had it fixed width :sweat_smile: when it was fixed width, it was loading already truncated

Truncate characters responsively

Need help Responsiveness

sudsy January 8, 2025, 4:34am 9

It turns out it’s doable.

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