format.crop ViewHelper <f:format.crop>

Use this ViewHelper to crop the text between its opening and closing tags.

Whitespace within the f:format.crop element will be considered as characters.

Examples

Defaults

<f:format.crop maxCharacters="10">
This is some very long text
</f:format.crop>
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This is...

The third word "some" does not fit in the 10 character limit, because respectWordBoundaries is true by default.

Custom suffix

<f:format.crop maxCharacters="17" append="&nbsp;[more]">
This is some very long text
</f:format.crop>
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This is some&nbsp;[more]

Don't respect word boundaries

<f:format.crop maxCharacters="10" respectWordBoundaries="false">
This is some very long text
</f:format.crop>
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This is s...

Don't respect HTML tags

<f:format.crop maxCharacters="28" respectWordBoundaries="false" respectHtml="false">
This is some text with <strong>HTML</strong> tags
</f:format.crop>
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This is some text with <stro

Inline notation

{someLongText -> f:format.crop(maxCharacters: 10)}
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someLongText cropped after 10 characters Depending on the value of {someLongText}.

Arguments

maxCharacters

DataType
mixed
Required
true
Description
Place where to truncate the string

append

DataType
string
Default
'&hellip;'
Required
false
Description
What to append, if truncation happened

respectWordBoundaries

DataType
mixed
Default
true
Required
false
Description
If TRUE and division is in the middle of a word, the remains of that word is removed.

respectHtml

DataType
mixed
Default
true
Required
false
Description
If TRUE the cropped string will respect HTML tags and entities. Technically that means, that cropHTML() is called rather than crop()