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#1 2008-12-15 14:18:12
- Zodiac
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Truncate Titles
Hey guys, I did a quick search for this and everything that came up was circa 2005, so I thought I would ask again…
What is the best way to truncate titles in my default page?
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I think sab_substr could do that for you.
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Probably, rvm_substr is a little better than the one suggested by Stuart.
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Or rvm_substr, which might be better as it’s newer and understands that splitting in the middle of an XHTML tag is bad…
EDIT: Maniqui had faster fingers :-)
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#5 2008-12-15 15:08:24
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Re: Truncate Titles
ha… interesting how it works, so for like, this block of code:
<h4>Previous Articles</h4>
<div id="prevart"><ul><txp:rvm_substr length="50"><txp:article_custom section="article" limit="20" sortby="Posted" sortdir="desc" form="recentarticles" /></txp:rvm_substr></ul></div>
It actually limits the entire list to 50 characters, rather than each iteration…. doh!
Last edited by Zodiac (2008-12-15 15:09:33)
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#6 2008-12-15 15:14:17
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Re: Truncate Titles
Can you append the rvm_substr to each list element? Like, in the txp:article tag?
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Yes. You should enclose the <txp:title /> tag in your form to do what I think you want.
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#8 2008-12-15 15:22:07
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Re: Truncate Titles
I list like, previous entries and some of the titles are longer than the sidebar, so they wrap, and wrap, and wrap… and I’d rather just replace the ends with a … and be done with it.
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#9 2008-12-15 15:35:15
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Re: Truncate Titles
thebombsite wrote:
Yes. You should enclose the
<txp:title />tag in your form to do what I think you want.
hmmm… I am confused by what you mean…
Can you show me an example?
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In your form template called “recentarticles” you should wrap the title tag something like:-
<txp:rvm_substr length="50"><txp:title /></txp:rvm_substr>Stuart
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#11 2008-12-15 15:48:01
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Re: Truncate Titles
DuH!
Yes of course… very nice…
It sort of works, ha, it looks like 35 characters means different things to different titles, but it works!
Thanks guys!
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The character limit includes spaces, punctuation etc.
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