shortenAddress()

function shortenAddress(address, maxLength?): string;

Shortens a string to a maxLength by replacing the middle of it with ....

Note: when maxLength < 4 there isn’t enough room to fit an ellipsis-bearing truncation, so the address is returned unchanged. In that regime this function cannot guarantee its output is <= maxLength — only that it never truncates to something longer than the untruncated input.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default value	Description
address	string	undefined	Address-like string to shorten via ellipses.
maxLength	number	12	The maximum length the truncated string should be. This value determines how many characters of the string are actually shown. Note that the value does not include the horizontal ellipsis character. If the value is odd, it will be rounded down to the nearest even.

Returns

string

The truncated string