Answers for "how to disply only the first 5 chars from a string in javascript"

javascript get first 10 characters of string

var str = "Hello world That is reallly neat!";
var res = str.substring(0, 5);//get first 5 chars

get everything after the first character javascript

var val = 'asdasd:111122:123123123';
var response = val.substring(val.indexOf(":"));

alert(response); // ":111122:123123123"