Text Truncator

Only when the text is actually shortened. If your text already fits within the limit it is returned unchanged, with no trailing dots and a No change label, so you never get a stray ellipsis on text that was not cut.

In character mode it avoids splitting a word in half. If the cut would land inside a word, the tool backs up to the previous space so the kept text ends on a whole word, then adds the ellipsis after it.

No. The limit counts only the kept content. The ellipsis is added on top, so the visible result can be a few characters longer than the limit. Subtract the length of your ellipsis from the limit if you need a hard cap.

Yes. Switch the mode to words and the tool keeps the first N words, rejoins them with single spaces, and adds the ellipsis only if any words were dropped. Word-safe is not needed in this mode and is disabled.

If word-safe mode cannot find an earlier space, because the whole kept portion is a single unbroken word, it falls back to a hard character cut so you still get a result at the limit rather than nothing.

Characters are counted by Unicode code point, so an emoji or an accented letter counts as one character and is never split down the middle by a character-mode cut.

It is whatever marker you want appended to shortened text. The default is three dots, but you can use a single ellipsis character, a space and arrow, the word more, or leave it empty to cut with no marker at all.

Yes. The truncation runs entirely in your browser, so your text never leaves your device and nothing is sent to a server.