I'm developing a Classic ASP page that pulls some content from a database and creates a Read more link after the first 100 characters as follows;
<div class="contentdetail"><%=StripHTML(rspropertyresults.Fields.Item("ContentDetails").Value)%></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var cutoff = 200;
var text = $('div.contentdetail').text();
var rest = $('div.contentdetail').text().substring(cutoff);
if (text.length > 200) {
var period = rest.indexOf('.');
var space = rest.indexOf(' ');
cutoff += Math.max(Math.min(period, space), 0);
}
var visibleText = $('div.contentdetail').text().substring(0, cutoff);
$('div.contentdetail')
.html(visibleText + ('<span>' + rest + '</span>'))
.append('<a title="Read More" style="font-weight:bold;display: block; cursor: pointer;">Read More…</a>')
.click(function() {
$(this).find('span').toggle();
$(this).find('a:last').hide();
});
$('div.contentdetail span').hide();
});
</script>
However, the script obviously just cuts the text off after 100 characters. Preferably I would like it to keep on writing text until the first period or space, for example. Is this possible to do?
Thank you.
Go to Site pages (under the Website menu) and begin editing the site page where you want the link to appear. Click the Gadgets icon to display the list of available gadgets. Drag the custom HTML gadget from the Gadget list (not a content gadget), and drop it in the desired location.
The substring() method extracts characters, between two indices (positions), from a string, and returns the substring. The substring() method extracts characters from start to end (exclusive). The substring() method does not change the original string.
Answer: Use the JavaScript substring() method You can use the JavaScript substring() method in combination with the jQuery append() and html() methods to truncate the paragraphs of a text and add read more link at the end, if the number of characters inside a paragraph exceeds a certain length.
var cutoff = 100;
var text = $('div.contentdetail').text();
var rest = text.substring(cutoff);
if (text.length > cutoff) {
var period = rest.indexOf('.');
var space = rest.indexOf(' ');
cutoff += Math.max(Math.min(period, space), 0);
}
// Assign the rest again, because we recalculated the cutoff
rest = text.substring(cutoff);
var visibleText = $('div.contentdetail').text().substring(0, cutoff);
EDIT: shortened it a bit. EDIT: Fixed a bug EDIT: QoL improvement
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