use-clamp-text

react hook to clamp multiline text to a given height in a responsive way and with extreme flexibility (under 2.5kb)

Line Clampin’ (Truncating Multiple Line Text) is a major hassle still for most browsers.

This tiny react hook eases that pain.

Why hook?

Cause it gives extreme flexibility over how you want to control the text. Do you want truncate it or not? When to truncate it? How to show read more interactions? and more…

Usage

Basic Example

import { useClampText } from 'use-clamp-text';

const longText = "Spicy jalapeno bacon ipsum dolor amet drumstick sirloin chuck shankle. Flank ribeye pancetta andouille ham hock. Turkey cow tenderloin landjaeger filet mignon hamburger. Pig tail strip steak pastrami t-bone venison bresaola biltong corned beef drumstick pork hamburger tri-tip. Tongue ham hock corned beef tri-tip meatball t-bone fatback andouille sirloin chuck jowl biltong pastrami. Ham hock ground round landjaeger tail strip steak. Ham sirloin pork loin salami spare ribs. Jerky cow short ribs ground round. Hamburger porchetta shankle meatloaf shank.";

function ClampedText {
const [ref, { noClamp, clampedText }] = useClampText({
  text: longText,
});

  return (
    <section>
      <h1>
        {noClamp ? 'Not truncated' : 'Truncated'}
      </h1>
      <div>
        {clampedText}
      </div>
    </section>
  );
}

Advanced Example

Check out the codesandbox example

API Reference

prop	type	required	default	description
text	`string`	`true`		Text you wish to clamp
ellipsis	`string`	`false`	`'…'`	String displayed after the clamped `text`
expanded	`boolean`	`false`	`false`	To control whether the string should be truncated or not
lines	`number`	`false`	`3`	Number of visible lines
debounce	`number`	`false`	`300`	Time in milliseconds used for debounce

Prior Art (packages I copied adapted code from)

GitHub

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