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Truncate Text from Rich Text Editor - Umbraco 8

Im trying to truncate the article text to display only the first 100 characters of the string.

    @item.Value("articleContent").ToString().Truncate(100) <a href="@item.Url">Read More..</a>

This works perfectly to truncate the string - but it displays the <p> tag at the begining.

This is what it looks like -

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In aliquet sapien non posuere pretium... Read More..

How can I avoid displaying the HTML Tags?

Solution

  • Just strip the HTML tags before the truncate 

    Regex.Replace(item.Value("articleContent"), @"<[^>]*>", String.Empty).Truncate(100);