diff --git a/app/dialplan/dialplan_edit.php b/app/dialplan/dialplan_edit.php
index bbc7731336..017f262032 100644
--- a/app/dialplan/dialplan_edit.php
+++ b/app/dialplan/dialplan_edit.php
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ if (count($_POST) > 0 && strlen($_POST["persistformvar"]) == 0) {
 									unset ($prep_statement, $sql);
 								}
 								$dialplan_detail_data_mod = ($gateway_name != '') ? str_replace($gateway_uuid, $gateway_name, $dialplan_detail_data) : $dialplan_detail_data;
-								echo "	<label id=\"label_dialplan_detail_data_".$x."\">".$dialplan_detail_data_mod."</label>\n";
+								echo "	<label id=\"label_dialplan_detail_data_".$x."\">".ellipsis($dialplan_detail_data_mod, 75, false)."</label>\n";
 							}
 							echo "	<input id='dialplan_detail_data_".$x."' name='dialplan_details[".$x."][dialplan_detail_data]' class='formfld' type='text' style='width: 100%; ".$element['visibility']."' placeholder='' value=\"".htmlspecialchars($dialplan_detail_data)."\">\n";
 							echo "</td>\n";
diff --git a/resources/functions.php b/resources/functions.php
index 0ea7383b51..4acbd5d72c 100644
--- a/resources/functions.php
+++ b/resources/functions.php
@@ -999,4 +999,22 @@ if(!function_exists('validate_email')) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// ellipsisnicely truncate long text
+if(!function_exists('ellipsis')) {
+	function ellipsis($string, $max_characters, $preserve_word = true) {
+		if ($max_characters+$x >= strlen($string)) { return $string; }
+		if ($preserve_word) {
+			for ($x = 0; $x < strlen($string); $x++) {
+				if ($string{$max_characters+$x} == " ") {
+					return substr($string,0,$max_characters+$x)." ...";
+				}
+				else { continue; }
+			}
+		}
+		else {
+			return substr($string,0,$max_characters)." ...";
+		}
+	}
+}
 ?>