Can the HTML tag protection stuff be simplified?

[henrythewasp]

I was using this plugin and having some problems with tags not being closed, then I realised that you can use the following to get jQuery to close any open tags for you:

var safeShortString = $('<div/>').html(shortString).html();

So, when the string has to be truncated, just pass the truncated shortString as above and jQuery sorts it out for you and you don't need all that char-by-char parsing code.

I've tested this with jQuery 1.7.2