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Is there a way to limit the number of characters displayed when pulling from the {body} from a recent forum post?

For example, if the post had 300 characters but when displaying the body in a non-forum template I only want to display the first 100 characters.

Not sure how to go about doing this.

Thanks you

I haven’t had a chance to try it, but how about using one of the available text truncating plugins?  Look on Devot-ee.com for one that might work.

Thanks Sue. I was hoping that there was an EE tag I wasn’t aware of but I’ll give this a shot as well as looking at some jQuery options.

Grand. Let us know how you get on with this

success!

okay. so if anyone else happens to need this function this is what I did.

First I went to devot-ee and searched under the “truncate” tag
http://devot-ee.com/search/tags/tag/truncate/

I tried two plugins
The first was truncHTML
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/trunchtml/
worked great but it was missing [at the time of this post] a feature that I needed.

I needed the ability to truncate at the last complete word so the character limit didn’t cut off a word if it reached its limit.

I gave Power Truncate a try
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/power-truncate/

and it worked like a dream and was easy peasy to set-up.

EE + plugins save the day!

Awesome, creativesherpa, and thanks for sharing your experience. Glad you found a solution!