Hi there,

I have got a question,
say, I have some HTML content.
My problem is, how do I substring the content to generate a preview of x letters of the pure text with leaving the markup structure fully functioning?

I tried to strip the tags, then substr my wanted length, and then I tried a make up a regexp to do the same to the HTML thing, but of course wouldn't work.

Thanks for your help.
ur right, sorry, okay:
eg, I have got this: 
<b>bla blub</b><i>this</i> <br>is the content I want to extract</i> bu
+t only some <span style="background:#ccc">part of it</span>

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Now I want to provide a preview like that:
<b>bla blub</b><i>this <br>is the content I want to extract</i>but   -
+> more?

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if I just did substr($content,0,40) I would get something like: 
<b>bla blub</b><i>this <br>is the content I want t

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and you see that the HTML markup is broken, which I would like not to have.

In reply to Substringing HTML content by eternius

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