truncate

• Module: mod_base

Truncate a text to a maximum length.

The text gets truncated to the maximum length specified with the argument. The text will alway truncated at a word boundary. When the truncation is not after punctuation then the unicode “…” character is appended.

For example:

{{ value|truncate:8 }}

When value is “hello world.” then the output is “hello…”.

Entities like “&” are recognized as a single character.

This filter is multibyte aware: Multi-byte UTF-8 characters are assumed to be non-breaking characters.