Cut text without stripping html tags

Hello,

Would it be possible to implement a function that cuts text without stripping the html tags?

I found that cakephp framework has such a function called "truncate".

It would be great to have both functionalities to strip or not strip tags in blog template category view and also in universal FC module.

book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/helpers/text.html

Found source here:
stackoverflow.com/questions/16583676/sho...r-breaking-html-tags

Hello

hhmm this is tricky to make it work in ALL cases
also our truncate function does a few other steps than just truncate the text



you can duplicate the FLEXIcontent template e.g.
blog -> blog-1

and then modify file(s)
category_items.php
category_items_html5.php

to use the alternative function, and gives us feedback on how it worked