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Text truncator

Shorten text to a maximum length and add an ellipsis, without cutting words.

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Text truncator works straight from this page — free, instant, nothing to install. It sits under Transform & clean in our catalogue, alongside Find and replace text and Fullwidth / aesthetic text.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What is Text truncator?

Shorten text to a maximum length and add an ellipsis, without cutting words.

When would I actually use this?

Cleaning up a paste before it goes anywhere: stripping duplicates from a list, normalising case, removing accents for a filename, or sorting lines.

What is the most common mistake?

Sorting text as if it were ASCII. Accented letters land after Z in a byte sort, which puts "Zurich" before "Émile" and produces a list no reader will accept.

How is Text truncator different from Find and replace text?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: Find and replace text is the one to open when you need it to replace every occurrence of a word or phrase in your text at once. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

Fullwidth / aesthetic text is the closest one after this: Convert text to fullwidth 'vaporwave' characters (Ｈｅｌｌｏ).

What else is worth having open alongside it?

Reverse text and Strikethrough & underline text — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Where do the figures come from?

Transformations use the browser's Unicode-aware string handling, so case changes and sorting respect the locale rather than byte order. Nothing is truncated: what comes out is the whole of what went in.

Further reading

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GuideStripping Markdown: What Plain Text Loses, and What a Regex Gets WrongA link becomes text with its destination deleted, a nested list loses its hierarchy, a table becomes a row of words. Then the technical half: markdown has no single spec, and a regex stripper mangles a filename, a multiplication sign and the inside of a code block — all shown against a real parser.GuideFormatting Numbers for Six Languages: Separators, Currency and the Parse Back1,234.56 and 1.234,56 are the same number, and confusing them changes the value a reader parses. We ran Intl.NumberFormat for all six site locales and printed every separator — including the invisible one French uses — then measured why parseFloat cannot undo any of it.ExplainerEmoji Are Harder Than They Look: Why "Just Strip the Emoji" Has No One-Line AnswerOne visible emoji can be one code point or fourteen UTF-16 units. We ran three popular regexes against a real sentence and each broke differently — one deleted the digits. Here is why, which Unicode property answers which question, and the grapheme-cluster rule that actually works.ExplainerCounting Words Is Ambiguous, and Every Tool Answers DifferentlyA word count is a definition, not a measurement. We counted the same paragraph four ways and got 25, 28, 33 and 38 — then counted 50,000 characters of ordinary prose and got agreement to within 4.5%. The gap is entirely driven by compounds, figures and URLs.GuideStripping HTML Safely: What a Tag Remover Can and Cannot DoRemoving tags and sanitising HTML are two different jobs. One real fragment run through a naive regex and through a formatting-aware stripper, with script and style contents, block breaks, comments, CDATA and entity order all shown as output.GuideCharacter Limits That Actually Bite: Code Units, Code Points and GraphemesA character is three different things at once. One emoji with a skin tone is 1 grapheme, 2 code points and 4 UTF-16 units. Every count in this guide was measured in Node, plus why an SMS drops from 160 to 70 and why VARCHAR(255) is not 255 of anything in particular.