cut intro but keep html formating

Hi,

I've tried various options for the intro text in category view. And the only way to cut the intro to a specific number of characters is to have the text stripped of HTML.

is there a way to simple cut the intro to that specific number while keeping the html formatting?

thanks

Cheers

Without coding yours not.... sorry
IT difficult to do this without cutting div or other html balise

Thanks for the reply.

in a previous site running on FC 1.x, i was using the following in one of my template and was working:

but for some reason, it does not work in FC2.x. Although i thought it would since it's not a FC native function.

LOL my bad. i was looking at the wrong page on the front end.

This works actually. But i agree that it's ugly and not a good practice as you can easily cut out a closing tag for example.

"kids! Don't do this at home!" !!!!

Hello, yes avoid it !

and if your texts includes div or table or similar do not do it for any reason !! the browser will not recover from it and all layout of your page will be ruined

Oh yes, i saw what damage it can do.
But for this very specific purpose, it does work for me since it's a for a block of text that has no formatting at all.
That's why i added a note to my post.

DO NOT USE THIS SNIPPET UNLESS YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Cheers