Tidy HTML output with JavaScript

You can try the cutter.js library. It's pretty new, so I haven't heard much about it, but it seems like what you're looking for as far as cropping goes.

Check out my fiddle, testing it out: http://jsfiddle.net/JKirchartz/jwL8v/

var oElement = document.getElementById("test");
Cutter.run(oElement, oElement, 100);

$("#gc").click(function(){
    /* This will count words by spaces in the text */
    var tt = $("#test").text().split(" ");
    if (typeof(console) == 'object'){    
        console.log(tt);
    }
    alert("wordcount: "+tt.length);
     
});