Wanted: shorten long URLs

Walys

TeamF Not is the same as your request but read this: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/30288-any-extension-to-cut-a-large-links/

clarkwinkelmann

My paid extension Rich Embeds can replace links with the title of the page they link to. This might not always be shorter than the original URL though 🙉

Since that extension is already able to rewrite the link labels, I could add some additional label options where a truncated/simplified version of the URL gets displayed (like, do not show protocol, do not show query string, etc).

clarkwinkelmann

TeamF I don't think this can be achieved by CSS.

You might be able to target your own links with a CSS attribute start selector, then hide a given number of pixels off the left side of the element, but I can't think of a way to verify the link label is a raw URL and no way to account for fallback fonts that would have a different character width either.

It can be done with the PHP TextFormatter extender of Flarum though, or client-side only with javascript.