Read-Smore

(cause read-more was already taken 😉)

A customizable, lightweight vanilla JS plugin for truncating content with a Read more / Read less move, whilst preserving the original markup. Able to truncate by max word or character count.

Docs / Demo

Contents

1. 📌 Features
2. 🎯 Quickstart
3. 🧬 Options
4. 🤖 Commands
5. 🕹️ Usage
6. 📓 Notes
7. 📅 To Dos

📌 Features

• Super lightweight, no dependencies, vanilla js, es6.
• Supports truncating content by max word or character count.
• Define max word or characters via data attribute or option
• Adds ellipse after truncated content.
• Preserves existing markup (nice).
• Read more / Read less text is customizable, via option or data-attribute.
• Block level class name is customizable.
• Read More link can be inlined with truncated content, or as block level element below.
• No CSS deps, lib is 100% js.
• Hybrid NPM Module, supporting import and require

🎯 Quickstart

1. Install from NPM

npm i read-smore

2. Create markup with defined max words

<div
  class="js-read-smore"
  data-read-smore-words="70"
>
  <p>Stuff and words and stuff and words.</p>
  <p>Words and stuff and words and stuff.</p>
  <!-- more HTML content -->
</div>

3. Add JS and init

import ReadSmore from 'read-smore'

// target all read more elements
const readMores = document.querySelectorAll('.js-read-smore')

// Init
ReadSmore(readMores).init()

Or, by require

const ReadSmore = require("read-smore");
const readMores = document.querySelectorAll(".js-read-smore");
ReadSmore(readMores).init();

Or, by CDN

To include via CDN, find the latest UMD version at https://unpkg.com/read-smore and inlcude via script tag, like so:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/read-smore@2.0.4/dist/index.umd.js"></script>

Then, initialize

const ReadSmore = window.readSmore

// target all read more elements
const readMoreEls = document.querySelectorAll('.js-read-smore')

// Init
ReadSmore(readMoreEls).init()

🧬 Options

ReadSmore() accepts a single options param, which supports the following properties:

🤖 Project Commands

Install Project Deps

npm i

Build

npm run build

Builds src with microbundle to the various common js patterns.

Run Dev

npm run dev

Dev has microbundle begin watching / building the files, while also running the demo project via Parcel, which imports from the local src directory.

Run Demo

npm run demo:start

Lint

npm run lint

🕹️ Usage

Init JS

import ReadSmore from 'read-smore'

// target all read more elements with `js-read-smore` class
const readMores = document.querySelectorAll('.js-read-smore')

// Init
ReadSmore(readMores).init()

Example by max word count

To truncate content by max word count, use the data attribute data-read-smore-words="" with desired value.

<div
  class="js-read-smore"
  data-read-smore-words="70"
>
  <p>Stuff and words and stuff and words.</p>
  <p>Words and stuff and words and stuff.</p>
  <!-- more HTML content -->
</div>

Example by max character count

To truncate content by max character count, use the data attribute data-read-smore-chars="" with desired value.

<div
  class="js-read-smore"
  data-read-smore-chars="150"
>
  <p>Stuff and words and stuff and words.</p>
  <p>Words and stuff and words and stuff.</p>
  <!-- more HTML content -->
</div>

Example defining read more/less text via data attribute

To truncate content by max character count, use the data attribute data-read-smore-chars="" with desired value.

<div
  class="js-read-smore"
  data-read-smore-chars="150"
  data-read-smore-more-text="Read Schmore"
  data-read-smore-less-text="Read Schless"
>
  <p>Stuff and words and stuff and words.</p>
  <p>Words and stuff and words and stuff.</p>
  <!-- more HTML content -->
</div>

Provide Options

ReadSmore supports a few options, such as editing the more/less text. See Options table below for more.

import ReadSmore from 'read-smore'

const readMores = document.querySelectorAll('.js-read-smore')

const options = {
  blockClassName: 'read-more',
  moreText: 'Peep more',
  lessText: 'Peep less'
}

// Pass in options param
ReadSmore(readMores, options).init()

Inline Read More link

You can have the Read More link appear inline with the ellipsed content, as opposed to below it.

Note: As of v2.2.0, required css dep was removed in favor of a pure js approach that simply applied inline styles.

1: Via data-read-smore-inline

<div
  class="js-read-smore"
  data-read-smore-chars="150"
  data-read-smore-inline="true"
>
  <p>Stuff and words and stuff and words.</p>
  <p>Words and stuff and words and stuff.</p>
  <!-- more HTML content -->
</div>

2: Via Option (effects all readSmore instances

const readMores = document.querySelectorAll('.js-read-smore')

const options = {
  isInline: true
}

const RMs = ReadSmore(readMores, options)

📓 Notes

• Need to figure out how to handle ReadMore instances with ajaxed/Fetched in content, since the word count on existing instances will be already truncated.
• Thinking the solution is to destroy and rebuild via a click event. Or, at least open all and rebuild on click.

📅 To Dos

• Overhaul and simplfiy API to be more plugin / module like
• Rename everything to 'ReadSmore'
• Add docs / demo pages via gh-pages
• Bundle as Hybrid NPM Module to support import and require
• Remove CSS needed for inline option
• Provide callbacks on open/close
• Provide a destroy method
• Provide a solution for content injected after page load
• Add some tests