I am currently trying to create a function that will ellipsize the middle of a text string. The idea is for it to show the first five characters and the last five characters. The middle of the string will just show as
…
So for example if I have dkjkjfdljfldkjfssdfsf
It should show as
dkjkj…sdfsf
I so far have this function:
function ellipsizeIt(text, length) {
if (text.length > length) { return ${text.substring(0, length)}...${text.substring(0, length)}
; }
return text;
}
But its just repeating the string first five characters when I do:
ellipsizeIt(text, 5);
It will show as
dkjkj…dkjkj
Any way to do it so that it doesnt just repeat the first five characters in the end of the string and show the actual last 5 characters?