使用substring方法:

var length = 3;
var myString = "ABCDEFG";
var myTruncatedString = myString.substring(0,length);
// The value of myTruncatedString is "ABC"

在你的例子中:

var length = 3;  // set to the number of characters you want to keep
var pathname = document.referrer;
var trimmedPathname = pathname.substring(0, Math.min(length,pathname.length));

document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML =
     "<a href='" + pathname +"'>" + trimmedPathname + "</a>"

要将字符串截断为特定长度，请在JavaScript中使用以下单线性箭头函数:

const truncate = (str, len) => str.slice?.(0, len);
    
console.log(truncate("Hello, World!", 5));
// Expected Output: Hello

上面的函数使用string .prototype.slice方法，该方法获取字符串的一个块，并将其作为一个新字符串返回，而不改变原始字符串。

是的，substring工作得很好:

stringTruncate('Hello world', 5); //output "Hello..."
stringTruncate('Hello world', 20);//output "Hello world"

var stringTruncate = function(str, length){
  var dots = str.length > length ? '...' : '';
  return str.substring(0, length)+dots;
};

使用substring方法:

var length = 3;
var myString = "ABCDEFG";
var myTruncatedString = myString.substring(0,length);
// The value of myTruncatedString is "ABC"

在你的例子中:

var length = 3;  // set to the number of characters you want to keep
var pathname = document.referrer;
var trimmedPathname = pathname.substring(0, Math.min(length,pathname.length));

document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML =
     "<a href='" + pathname +"'>" + trimmedPathname + "</a>"

一行ES6解决方案

如果字符串长度超过给定长度，它还会添加一个结束字符串，而不仅仅是截断字符串。

const limit = (string, length, end = "...") => {
    return string.length < length ? string : string.substring(0, length) + end
}

limit('Hello world', 5) // Hello...

var str = "Anything you type in.";
str.substring(0, 5) + "" //you can type any amount of length you want