diff --git a/applets/clipboard/contents/ui/TextItemDelegate.qml b/applets/clipboard/contents/ui/TextItemDelegate.qml
index d54c526eb..e2ffa66c3 100644
--- a/applets/clipboard/contents/ui/TextItemDelegate.qml
+++ b/applets/clipboard/contents/ui/TextItemDelegate.qml
@@ -1,56 +1,56 @@
 /********************************************************************
 This file is part of the KDE project.
 
 Copyright (C) 2014 Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@kde.org>
 Copyright     2014 Sebastian Kügler <sebas@kde.org>
 
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 *********************************************************************/
 
 import QtQuick 2.0
 
 import org.kde.plasma.components 2.0 as PlasmaComponents
 
 PlasmaComponents.Label {
     height: undefined // unset PlasmaComponents.Label default height
     maximumLineCount: 3
     verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter
 
     text: {
         var highlightFontTag = "<font color='" + theme.highlightColor + "'>%1</font>"
 
-        var text = DisplayRole
+        var text = DisplayRole.slice(0, 100)
 
         // first escape any HTML characters to prevent privacy issues
         text = text.replace(/&/g, "&amp;").replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/>/g, "&gt;")
 
         // color code leading or trailing whitespace
         // the first regex is basically "trim"
         text = text.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/gm, function(match) {
             // then inside the trimmed characters ("match") we replace each one individually
             match = match.replace(/ /g, "␣") // space
                          .replace(/\t/g, "↹") // tab
                          .replace(/\n/g, "↵") // return
             return highlightFontTag.arg(match)
         })
 
         // finally turn line breaks into HTML br tags
         text = text.replace(/([^>\r\n]?)(\r\n|\n\r|\r|\n)/g, "<br>")
 
         return text
     }
     elide: Text.ElideRight
     wrapMode: Text.WrapAtWordBoundaryOrAnywhere
     textFormat: Text.StyledText
 }