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I want to add a character limit on the display portion of expression engines channel field, not on the back end entry.

for example, If i have a field "Description" I want to be able to display a "preview" of it, at 50 characters, and then if clicked, or on another page, I want to show that same field, but with no character limit to display the full text.

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there are loads of character limit/string manipulation plugins here https://devot-ee.com/search/results?keywords=character+limit&addon_version_support=ee2

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  • and Ellis Lab provides a first party plugin as well. github.com/EllisLab/Char-Limit/releases
    – Jim Wyse
    Sep 16, 2015 at 11:41
  • TruncHTML gets my vote - especially the way it can handle truncating html without leaving orphaned html tags.
    – Peter Lewis
    Sep 16, 2015 at 13:08
  • I was hoping there was something built in that I just missed in the documentation, but TrunchHTML will get the job done. Thanks!
    – Drew Major
    Sep 16, 2015 at 17:29

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