ViewHelper Documentation

`format.crop`

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

= Examples =

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

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

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

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

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

Arguments

maxCharacters anySimpleType

Place where to truncate the string

append string

What to append, if truncation happened

respectWordBoundaries anySimpleType

If TRUE and division is in the middle of a word, the remains of that word is removed.

respectHtml anySimpleType

If TRUE the cropped string will respect HTML tags and entities. Technically that means, that cropHTML() is called rather than crop()

Package

ViewHelpers