Other option than text-ellipsis
<p>I have encountered a problem in regards ellipsis. I need the texts that I will be displaying be in ellipsis but the environment only supports until CSS2 so I can't use text-ellipsis.</p>

<p>Currently have a function in Javascript that loops every character of the text cuts it when it reaches a certain length and adds "..." but it's kinda slow (there are lots of texts to be in ellipsis -- too many texts to loop)</p>

<p>Can you suggest any other option in Javascript/CSS? </p>