[css] CSS를 사용하여 텍스트 길이를 n 줄로 제한

.text {
  position: relative;
  font-size: 14px;
  color: black;
  width: 250px; /* Could be anything you like. */
}

.text-concat {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
  word-wrap: break-word;
  overflow: hidden;
  max-height: 3.6em; /* (Number of lines you want visible) * (line-height) */
  line-height: 1.2em;
  text-align:justify;
}

.text.ellipsis::after {
  content: "...";
  position: absolute;
  right: -12px;
  bottom: 4px;
}

/* Right and bottom for the psudo class are px based on various factors, font-size etc... Tweak for your own needs. */

<div class="text ellipsis">
  <span class="text-concat">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, nibh eleifend cu his, porro fugit mandamus no mea. Sit tale facete voluptatum ea, ad sumo altera scripta per, eius ullum feugait id duo. At nominavi pericula persecuti ius, sea at sonet tincidunt, cu posse facilisis eos. Aliquid philosophia contentiones id eos, per cu atqui option disputationi, no vis nobis vidisse. Eu has mentitum conclusionemque, primis deterruisset est in.

Virtute feugait ei vim. Commune honestatis accommodare pri ex. Ut est civibus accusam, pro principes conceptam ei, et duo case veniam. Partiendo concludaturque at duo. Ei eirmod verear consequuntur pri. Esse malis facilisis ex vix, cu hinc suavitate scriptorem pri.
  </span>
</div>

setTimeout(function()
{
	var max = 200;
  var tot, str;
  $('.text').each(function() {
  	str = String($(this).html());
  	tot = str.length;
    str = (tot <= max)
    	? str
      : str.substring(0,(max + 1))+"...";
    $(this).html(str);
  });
},500); // Delayed for example only.

.text {
  position: relative;
  font-size: 14px;
  color: black;
  font-family: sans-serif;
  width: 250px; /* Could be anything you like. */
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<p class="text">
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.
</p>

<p class="text">
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth;
</p>
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