How to "cut off" text to a specified number of characters?

Tuesday 20 January 2004 12:05:08 pm

Hi Maarten,

Q1: Use the shorten template operator. Example, {"This text is too long"|shorten(4)} produces "This..."

Q2: Either you use the shorten operator again if you have a hyperlink with a text description. Or you can use the autolink operator to detect URLs in a text and make them clickable that way. The autolink operator also takes one (optional) parameter: max characters.

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Hans

Hans
http://blog.hansmelis.be

Wednesday 21 January 2004 2:26:34 am

Thank you for your quick reply! I've got a small problem. Now I use the following code for showing the full description:
{$category.item.data_map.description.data_text}

When I change this into:
{$category.item.data_map.description.data_text|shorten(15, "... read more")}

nothing is showed. Source says:

<div class="date">
<?... read more
<BR /><BR />
</div>

The code:

{"This one works just fine!"|shorten(15, "... read more")} works fine. Do you know what's wrong with my first string?

Regards,

Maarten

Wednesday 21 January 2004 7:48:56 am

You're asking to shorten the pure XML, you should use the shorten operator on the HTML:

{$category.item.data_map.description.content|shorten(15)} for regular text fields. Or {$category.item.data_map.description.content.output.output_text|shorten(15)} for XML text fields.

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Hans

Hans
http://blog.hansmelis.be

Friday 15 October 2004 4:15:14 am

How to "cut off" text, if I have table in description, this tag cut the piece of table and destroy the all design.... :(
It's very uncomfortable

plz help!!!

koban@inbox.ru