How to truncate text with an ellipsis in Sketch?

Question

I can't find a good way to truncate a line of text with an ellipsis, like this:

Is there any way to do this without modifying the text itself? I want it to add the ellipsis intelligently – only when characters are being clipped because the text element is too small.

Answer 1

Use the Sketch Truncate Textlines plugin.

1. Download it via this link;
2. Install it ( unzip the file and double click on sketch-truncate-textlines.sketchplugin );
3. Select your text;
4. Hit ctrl + alt + ⌘ + T;
5. Select number of lines that you want displayed;
6. Done. :)