I added on a tiny extra piece of functionality that made this plugin just a little better – JQuery UI effects.

1. At the var defaults declaration, add a new parameter “show: ”, ”
2. Find $(‘span.hiddenText_’+num).show() and add “defaults.show” in the () after .show

Now you can have transition effects for the click event:

.truncatable({ limit: 100, more: ‘… read more‘, less: false, show: ‘fast’ })

I also found you can happily chain on to the end of the function so that you can show other panels when the click occurs:

.truncatable({ limit: 100, more: ‘… read more‘, less: false, show: ‘fast’ }).click(function () {
$(this).parent().find(“div.comments”).show();
});

And here’s the code with the errors and warnings removed and the return false statement in the right place. The code formatting was removed when I downloaded it, so I had to run it through this first: http://jsbeautifier.org/

http://gist.github.com/457245