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Is there a built in (or easy) method of shortening the length of a title when it is displayed in a template (ie. if the title becomes too long and wants to text wrap). Perhaps even add a “...” to titles that are too long to display properly?

ie.

{exp:channel:entries channel="articles" limit="15" dynamic="no" orderby="date" } 
   <div class="sidebar-item">
      <h5>{title}</h5><p>      <!-- to a maximum of say 50 characters --><br />
      <i>{categories}{category_name}{/categories}</i></p>

<p>      <a href="/{channel_name}/view/{url_title}">View Ad</a><br />
   </div><br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

There are two really great plugins for this - Trunchtml and my new go to plugin because it will also strip all html, but allow you to keep certain tags if you so wish Hacksaw

Snippet is a good one that i have used for this too.