https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2582-actionviewtexthelper-graceful-truncate#ticket-2582-1 This could help, too! :P
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:57 PM, andrew.ohns...@gmail.com < andrew.ohns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a text field in the db for the body of user posts. Users > submit the posts using the tinymce editor, which allows certain html > tags. The posts are stored in the db with allowed html tags directly > in the post, so I could have something like: > > <p>This post will try to eliminate the confusion regarding rails and > the truncate function.</p> > > I am trying to display the first 300 characters of the post on a > "what's new" type page. I am using the truncate function of rails to > grab the first bit of each post for the what's new page... > > truncate(post.text, 300) > > which works just fine, except I have times where the 300 character > limit hits in the middle of a tag. One such post is currently > screwing up my layout... the 300 character limit is hitting in the > middle of the "close paragraph" tag, so my output html is: > > <p>This post will try to eliminate the confusion regarding rails and > the truncate function.</ > > Voiding the </div> that closes this area out. > > Simple ideas to fix this welcome... :) > > > -- Emanuele Tozzato +1 (619) 549 3230 1985 Sherington Place, #E302 Newport Beach, CA 92663 http://mekdigital.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
