Truncate string with html tag in Laravel

Question

I want to truncate in Laravel text from database with HTML Tag, for example:

<p>Hi. I want to say about my story. </p>

I found a method:

{{ Str::limit($text, 20) }}

But I've problem, because when I truncate this text with length 20, I will have this result:

<p>Hi. I want to say

I want to get text with closed tags in HTML. I know that such a method is available in different framework as soon as CakePHP. What about Laravel?

Answer 1

It's always preferable to parse HTML properly, but if your text is always contained in a single element, it should be safe to treat it as a simple string:

$html = "<div class='container'><p><span class='cj4'>Here’s the long text to be truncated</span></p></div>";
$text = strip_tags($html);
$short_text = Str::limit($text, 20);
$html = str_replace($text, $short_text, $html);

This results in:

<div class='container'><p><span class='cj4'>Here’s the long text...</span></p></div>