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  • Mark Watson 118 posts 384 karma points
    Nov 07, 2019 @ 06:29
    Mark Watson
    0

    How do you truncate text in content grid

    Hi there

    This is my first time using content grids and I have been stuck on this a while. I am using Umbraco cloud.

    I wish to display only the first 50 characters of an article and after 50 characters and ellipsis appears.

    @{
        var selection = Umbraco.Content(Guid.Parse("01284c80-30c0-4891-b349-802237f90443"))
        .Children()
        .Where(x => x.IsVisible());
    
    }
    
        @foreach (var item in selection)
        {
        var typedMediaPickerSingle = item.Value<IPublishedContent>("caseStudyLogo");
                  if (typedMediaPickerSingle != null)
                  {
    
        <div class="main-case">
             <div class="caselogo">
    
    <img src="@typedMediaPickerSingle.Url" />
    
    
                        </div>
        <div class="casebody">
            <div class="truncate-ellipsis">
                <h5><a href="@item.Url">@item.Name</a></h5></div>
            <div class="case">  @Html.GetGridHtml(item, "caseStudyContent", "CSUSKGrid")</div>
    
            </div>
    </div>
    
        <div class="casefooter"><img src="/_assets/css/images/caseimage.png"></div>
    
        }
    }
    

    This displays all the text. I have tried a few versions of @Umbraco.Truncate but keep getting errors. My latest is

    <div class="case">  @Umbraco.Truncate(@Html.GetGridHtml(item, "caseStudyContent", "CSUSKGrid"),50)</div>
    

    Has anyone any ideas. I am still an Umbraco newbie.

  • Claushingebjerg 939 posts 2574 karma points
    Nov 08, 2019 @ 14:34
    Claushingebjerg
    0

    GetGridHtml gets the entire grid you defined on your page and renders it.

    Truncating that doesn't really make sense as it's a html structure.

  • Bo Jacobsen 608 posts 2406 karma points
    Nov 08, 2019 @ 15:28
    Bo Jacobsen
    0

    Hi Mark.

    There are a few ways to implement that, but it also depend on how you use your grid system.

    The easiest way would be to use somekind of jQuery Ellipsis Plugin on your case div.

    Another way would be to find your text content from the grid and then truncate it.

  • Sebastian Dammark 583 posts 1407 karma points
    Nov 09, 2019 @ 14:09
    Sebastian Dammark
    2

    Can't you use Umbraco.StripHtml in combination with Umbraco.Truncate ?

  • Mark Watson 118 posts 384 karma points
    Nov 11, 2019 @ 02:26
    Mark Watson
    103

    Thanks Sebastion for pointing me in the right direction.

    For Umbraco 8 you need

    @Html.StripHtml(@Html.Truncate(@Html.GetGridHtml(item, "caseStudyContent", "CSUSKGrid"), 300, true))
    
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