Jquery ShortText plugin

Uses ellipsis when text is too long and sets a title

HTML

<div id="first"></div>
<div id="second"></div>

JavaScript

$.fn.shortText = function(str,length){
    var item = $(this);    
    var toset = str; 
    if(str.length > length) 
        toset = str.substring(0,length) +'..';
    item.text(toset).attr('title',str);
}
$('#first').shortText('Some very long string',5);
$('#second').shortText('Some very long string',99);