Questions tagged [truncation]
Truncation is the process of shortening a piece of content by cutting off the end (in a programming context, often applied to a text string or an array).
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The Card Height Problem
You have a horizontal row of three cards on a page. There's an image, a header, descriptive text and a button.
How do you ensure all of the cards stay the same height if the content in each card isn't ...
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Truncating labels on a radio button swatch
I have an ecommerce project wherein there's a limitation on the displayed text inside the radio button for swatches. This is a requirement of our business analyst and said that it was good but there ...
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Handling too long pre-fill text on text boxes
I'm designing a form for multiple languages on mobile. in english the prefill text is not too long, but when the translations e.g. russian, what's the best way to handle when it ends up being longer ...
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Are content previews important?
What is the purpose of content previews?
An example of content previews is that you have a list of news articles all with different stories, in the list is the name of the article and then 2 lines of ...
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Best practice for truncating similar titles in data grid?
I have the following table, where the names are truncated up to 14 characters, because there's no enough room for the table itself (in real world there are some more columns).
download bmml source &...
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Wrap or truncate long tabular data?
I have a table that displays about 10-12 columns of data and can be very cumbersome. Some columns are quite wide and the display doesn't look all that great. After doing some research, I found ...
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Truncation design solution for a search result with more than 1000 authors
Three things:
In recent years, we have seen a steep increase in the number of papers with authors in excess of 50, and a particularly notable
spike in reports whose author counts exceed 1,000 and ...
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Truncation vs. Wrapping text when designing for responsive page for multiple devices - which is better?
For a ready only form that is also designed to be responsive, some fields are long and some short. Currently, the default behavior is truncating long fields based on the space constraint. And on hover,...
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How can I show long titles in a short drop-down list button? [duplicate]
I have a dropdown button which will display under it a list of sections for an online e-learning course.
The button works fine for short titles but this website is known for having titles that can go ...
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Should large (wide) numbers be truncated differently than text?
Usually, when we have to display a text and we do not have enough space to display the whole text, it can be truncated and this could be indicated by an ellipsis.
See for example this question:
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Best way to handle long URLs
I have a list that contains long, in terms of character count, links and I am wondering if my solution is a good solution in terms of UX.
My solution is that if the link is over 80 characters, then ...
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How do you show long names in mobile apps?
I'm working with a client that has an existing user base with some very long names and usernames. (i.e. Xx_fakenamehere_xX) I don't want to truncate them (they're already truncated in the current ...
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Should a username be truncated?
Is it ever OK to truncate a username? Is there any good solution / trade-off?
Site shows username as:
Username: Shrinivasuk View: Shrinivasu...
Username: Ritesh View: Rite
Username: Poonam View: ...
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Truncating long text labels - Best Practices?
I was wondering whether there are any studies around truncated labels, in case if they ever get too long and layouts can't fix it? Does it confuse users if a label is truncated with an ellipsis ...
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Android text truncation guideline
Is there are set of guidelines for the Android how the text should be truncated in the controls? Fading text, ellipsis, cut in the middle, etc.?
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Studies or experience on using faded text to indicate more content?
Text that ends with ... normally indicates that there is more to read. But now I heard some people talking about faded text is a better user experience? Has anyone tested this or has experience from ...
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