Word-Based Text Truncation for Framer

Introduction

Managing text length is essential for maintaining a polished and user-friendly interface. With this Word-Based Text Truncation code override for Framer, you can limit the number of words displayed in your text elements while preserving styles, formatting, and nested structures. As part of your growing Framer resources toolkit, it’s perfect for ensuring consistency and readability in your designs, especially within CMS scenarios where the text length varies.

Why Add a Word-Based Text Truncation Feature?

Truncating text dynamically can solve design challenges when dealing with unpredictable or lengthy content. This feature allows you to:

• Create visually balanced layouts without overflowing text.

• Maintain styling, even for text wrapped in rich formatting like bold or italic.

• Simplify content management by setting a global word limit for text-heavy sections.

Whether you’re building a blog layout, a content card, or a user profile, this override ensures that your design remains consistent. Adding this to your Framer resources collection can streamline your workflow and solve a common problem for text-heavy projects.

How to Use the Code Override

The code override is simple to use and takes just a few steps to integrate into your Framer project:

1. Grab the remix link at the bottom

2. In the assets panel locate the TruncateText.tsx

3. You can edit the word limit on const wordLimit = 20, the default is 20 words

4. ⌘ + A to select all and ⌘ + C to copy all

5. In your Framer project, create a new Code Override and paste the code inside

6. Now select any text layer for which you would like to truncate its length

7. In the code overrides panel you will set the File to whatever you called your code override and the Override to wordLimit

8. Done, you're all set

P.S. You will only see the code override in action once you press Preview or Live within a browser