Truncate Text

Truncating text means cutting it short at a defined limit — a maximum number of characters, words, lines, sentences, or bytes — and optionally appending a suffix like … to signal that the content continues. It is widely used in UI development, SEO, content management, and API integrations where field-length constraints must be enforced.

Characters count visible symbols — each letter, digit, emoji, or punctuation mark is 1 character regardless of how many bytes it occupies. Bytes count the raw UTF-8 encoded size. ASCII characters (a–z, 0–9) take 1 byte each, most Western accented characters take 2 bytes, most CJK characters (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) take 3 bytes, and emoji typically take 4 bytes. Use character mode for most UI text; use byte mode when a database column, API field, or SMS gateway enforces a byte-length limit.

When truncating by characters, a hard cut can split a word — for example, cutting "remarkable" at 7 characters gives "remarka…" instead of "remark…". Enabling this option walks back to the nearest space before the cut point, so the output always ends on a complete word. It uses slightly fewer characters than the limit allows but produces much more readable results.

Middle truncation keeps text from both the beginning and the end of the string, placing the ellipsis in the center. For example, a 20-character middle truncation of /usr/local/bin/my-very-long-script.sh might produce /usr/local…script.sh. This is most useful for file paths, URLs, and identifiers where both the root and the file extension (or final segment) need to remain visible.

Yes. Enable the Strip HTML tags first option and the tool will remove all HTML tags and decode common entities (&,  , <, etc.) before applying the limit. This ensures that your character or word count reflects the visible text a user would read, not the underlying markup. The output will be plain text, not HTML.

Switch to the Batch tab. Paste one item per line — each line is treated as a separate text and truncated independently using the same mode, limit, position, and ellipsis settings. The results table shows every original/truncated pair side by side with counts and a status badge. The output textarea at the bottom contains all truncated results, one per line, ready to copy in a single click.

You can choose from the typographic ellipsis character … (a single Unicode character, U+2026), three separate dots ..., [more], [read more], (truncated), or a hard cut with no suffix at all. There is also a Custom option where you can type any string — useful for suffixes like — read more, →, or a localized equivalent in another language. The ellipsis length is counted against your limit, so the kept text is always short enough that the full output (text + suffix) does not exceed it.

Yes. The character counter uses JavaScript's iterable spread ([...text].length) which correctly iterates over Unicode code points. This means a single emoji — even a complex one like a family emoji that uses multiple code points — is counted at the code-point level. Most standard emoji count as 1 character. Composite emoji (skin-tone modifiers, ZWJ sequences like 👨‍👩‍👧) may count as more because they are composed of multiple code points joined by zero-width joiners, which is consistent with how platforms like Twitter count them.

No. All processing happens entirely in your browser using client-side JavaScript. Your text is never uploaded, logged, or transmitted anywhere. You can use this tool on sensitive drafts, private documents, or confidential content without any privacy concern.

The tool accepts texts up to tens of thousands of characters with no performance issues. The limit field accepts values up to 10,000,000 units. For extremely large inputs (millions of characters), processing remains instant because all logic runs synchronously in a single pass with no external dependencies.

Search engines display meta descriptions at roughly 155–160 characters and page titles at roughly 50–60 characters. Paste your draft meta description or title tag into the tool, set the limit to 160 or 60 characters respectively, and enable word-boundary protection to get a clean, search-engine-friendly snippet. The live counter lets you see exactly where you stand as you edit without switching between tools.

Yes. Twitter/X enforces a 280-character limit per post. LinkedIn posts support up to 3,000 characters, but previews are often truncated at 210 characters. Use the quick-limit preset buttons (280 is included) or type any custom limit. Paste your draft post, check the live counter, and copy the truncated version instantly. Batch mode is particularly useful if you are preparing multiple posts at once.

The tool detects this and shows a green success notice — "Your text already fits within the X limit — no truncation needed" — instead of a truncated output. No ellipsis is added and the original text is left unchanged. This prevents accidentally shortening or appending a suffix to text that was already the right length.