vue-snip

Vue.js directive that clamps the content of a text element if it exceeds specified number of lines.

How it works

This library offers two snipping methods:

• CSS method based on the -webkit-line-clamp
• JavaScript method that is snipping the innerText until it does not exceed given number of lines

Global default is the CSS method (automatically falls back to the JavaScript method for non-supporting browsers), but you can freely switch snipping methods on a per-element basis as needed.

Each element is also immediately re-snipped when horizontally resized. This is detected via the ResizeObserver.

Installation

npm install vue-snip

yarn add vue-snip

import Vue from 'vue'
import VueSnip from 'vue-snip'

Vue.use(VueSnip)

Usage

The most basic usage looks like this:

<template>
  <p v-snip> ... </p>
</template>

Most of the time, you would probably pass in the explicit maxLines value:

<template>
  <p v-snip="3"> ... </p>
</template>

On top of that, you can pass in the snipping method too:

<template>
  <p v-snip:js="3"> ... </p>
</template>

Both of these are also reactive, so you can do even this:

<template>
  <p v-snip:[method]="maxLines"> ... </p>
</template>

<script>
  export default {
    data () {
      return {
        method: 'js',
        maxLines: 3
      }
    }
  }
</script>

Options

import Vue from 'vue'
import VueSnip from 'vue-snip'

const options = {
  // your setup
}

Vue.use(VueSnip, options)

If you don't pass in any options, default options are used. Any option passed will override the default value.

Caveats

TODO: Document flexbox...

TODO: Document style attribute...