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Hi,

This is probably an easy fix, but I’m currently stumped…

I am using the truncHTML plugin to truncate content whilst retaining HTML. The thing is, I want to retain most of the HTML but to strip out certain tags. For example, I want the truncated text to retain links and strong tags, but I want to remove paragraph tags.

I’ve been using Ingo Wedler’s Strip_HTML plugin, which allows me to remove all HTML tags whilst except the ones I specify. I want to use a combination of these plugins on the same dynamic content, but if I nest one tag pair inside another it’s not happy!

The html_strip code looks like this:

{exp:strip_html keep='b|em|strong|a'}

    {article_body}

{/exp:strip_html}

The trunchtml code looks like…

{exp:trunchtml chars="440" inline="..." ending="<p class='read_more'><a href=''>Read full article</a></p>"}

    {article_body}

{/exp:trunchtml}

I was wondering if there was an easy way to process the content with one plugin, assign it to a new variable, then format that variable with the second plugin? Any advice?

(I’m using EE 2.1.3)

Ignore the above… it does work when you nest them, I had an error in my syntax. Here’s how it ended up looking in case anyone else wants to do this:

{exp:trunchtml chars="440" inline="..." ending="<p class='read_more'><a href=''>Read full article</a></p>"}
    {exp:strip_html keep='b,em,strong,a'}
        {article_body}
    {/exp:strip_html}
{/exp:trunchtml}

I don’t know if you can do it with TruncHTML or not, you will have to ask the dev. Maybe have a look at Hacksaw in the meantime.

Glad you figured it out!  😊

Good stuff 😊 Closing this one out. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions