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phoneboy
Director
6 years ago

How do I retrieve an excerpt of a message with HTML formatting?

We want to retrieve an excerpt of a topic message from a given thread and display it in a custom component. Currently, we're using something like the following to do it: <#assign body = (page.conte...
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phoneboy
Director
6 years ago

Looks like this is the way to do it and output the result without escaping the HTML:

<#assign body = (page.context.thread.topicMessage.body)!"" />
<#assign truncatedBody = utils.html.truncate(1000, body, "...")>
${truncatedBody?no_esc};