Backup of Devon Govett's ellipsis plugin for jQuery

jquery.text-overflow.js

/*
 * MIT LICENSE
 * Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Devon Govett.
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated 
 * documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation 
 * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, 
 * and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 *
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 * of the Software.
 *
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 */

(function($) {
	$.fn.ellipsis = function(enableUpdating){
		var s = document.documentElement.style;
		if (!('textOverflow' in s || 'OTextOverflow' in s)) {
			return this.each(function(){
				var el = $(this);
				if(el.css("overflow") == "hidden"){
					var originalText = el.html();
					var w = el.width();
					
					var t = $(this.cloneNode(true)).hide().css({
                        'position': 'absolute',
                        'width': 'auto',
                        'overflow': 'visible',
                        'max-width': 'inherit'
                    });
					el.after(t);
					
					var text = originalText;
					while(text.length > 0 && t.width() > el.width()){
						text = text.substr(0, text.length - 1);
						t.html(text + "...");
					}
					el.html(t.html());
					
					t.remove();
					
					if(enableUpdating == true){
						var oldW = el.width();
						setInterval(function(){
							if(el.width() != oldW){
								oldW = el.width();
								el.html(originalText);
								el.ellipsis();
							}
						}, 200);
					}
				}
			});
		} else return this;
	};
})(jQuery);