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TruncHTML

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1.2.2 2008-02-15 Plugins Freeware (?)

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This plugin is used for limiting text to a specified length. Much like the Character Limiter-Plugin that comes with ExpressionEngine.

The difference is, that TruncHTML is HTML-aware, so you can use it to shorten HTML-formatted text and keep the markup without being afraid of breaking it.

Unlike the standard limiter-plugins it does not count characters that belong to HTML-tags and does not cut-off in the middle of tags.


Example: Limit to 16 characters.
Take a look <a href="ref.html"><img src="arrow.gif" /></a> at this page. 
TruncHTML:
Take a look <a href="ref.html"><img src="arrow.gif" /></a> at 
Standard char_limit:
Take a look <a href="ref.html"><img&#8230; 


Furthermore it tries its best to close all tags that remain open after the text has been limited.

So if you limit the following text to 80 chars...
<p class="quote"><b>Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.<br />
<em>Isaac Asimov</em></b></p> 

the result will be ...
<p class="quote"><b>Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.<br />
<em>Isaac</em></b></p> 

instead of ...
<p class="quote"><b>Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's 

... which would probably screw the rest of the page.


[...]there wouldn’t be anything wrong with a separate plugin that is content aware. Silenz’s TruncHTML does a fabulous job with that, in fact I use it myself, and I don’t particularly see a reason for a first party solution to be made.[...]
Derek Jones, EllisLab

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Freeware means you may use this addon free of
charge in as many installations as you like.