Simple plugin that truncates a text either at its end or middle based on a given width or it's elements width. The width calculation takes into account all the original elements css styles like font-size, font-family, font-weight, text-transform, letter-spacing etc.
Additionally if the text has been shortened you can set a class to be appended to the element and/or set the "title" attribute to the original text.

$('.class').truncate();

$('.class').truncate({
	width: 'auto',
	token: '…',
	center: false,
});

• width (int) Width to which the text will be shortened [default: auto]
• token (string) Replacement string for the stripped part [default: '…']
• center (bool) Shortens at the center of the string if set to 'true' [default: false]
• addclass (string) Add a class to the truncated strings element [default: false]
• addtitle (bool) Add/Set "title" attribute with original text to the truncated strings element [default: false]

Released under the MIT license.