Hi

I don't think there is anything in Umbraco to truncate by number of words, but there is by number of characters.

@{
    var htmlStringUtilities = new HtmlStringUtilities();
}
<p>@htmlStringUtilities.Truncate("lorem ipsum dolor sit amet", 20, true, false)</p>

and that returns lorem ipsum dolor si…

Cheers

Paul

Hi kometa,

you could write your own extension method to achieve this. Following is just an idea and untested:

public static string TruncateByWords(this string text, int maxWords, string suffix = "...")
{
    int spaceCount = 0;
    string result = null;

    text = text.Trim();

    foreach (var character in text.ToCharArray())
    {
        if (character == ' ')
        {
            spaceCount++;
            if (spaceCount == maxWords)
            {
                result += suffix;
                break;
            }
        }
        result += character;
    }
    return result;
}

And use it like this:

Model.Value<string>("someProperty").TruncateByWords(20);

~Jonathan

Thanks for of the solutions. Ideally I would need a merge of both :-) As Jonathan, your solution is closer to what I need, but the result shows the html tags as well. Not sure how to fix that.

Dave, your solution displays HTML formatted text, so that's great, but the words get cut off.

Thanks.

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