Skip to main content

Print a DOM-Substring as plain text

Zendesk API User

    Author: bohm
    Publication Date: 6/21/2010 10:35

    Sometimes it is desired to display the beginning sequence of an article (e.g. on an overview page).

    If the article itself was written using the DOM-editor, this is the way to do it:

    $CMS_SET(text, st_domtext.toText(false).substring(0, 100))$ 
    $CMS_VALUE(text.substring(0,  text.lastIndexOf(" ")))$

    the method "toText(false)" returns the contents of the DOM-editor als plain text. The example above renders the first 100 characters of the contents of the DOM-editor but will not truncate in the middle of a word.

    Tags: cms_input_dom, knowledgebase

    Related articles

    Comments

    2 comments

    Date Votes
    • Zendesk API User
      Author: dleinich - 6/22/2010 16:11

      Wow, this makes total sense!

      0
    • Zendesk API User
      Author: bohm - 6/22/2010 16:13

      I like! :-)

      0

    Please sign in to leave a comment.