Answered How to limit output of placeholder

Hello, I am trying to set up sharing buttons in Discuss, which doesn't provide long titles or anything at the post level. The url is fine, but I want to provide several lines of contents as well.

I have found that the placeholder of [[+content_raw]] works, at least with twitter, but it ends up pushing ALL of those contents, which is far, far too much. Strangely, [[+content]] doesn't work, it breaks the code.

Anyway, I am looking for a way to start with [[+content_raw]] but limit it to a set number of characters, I would assume it could be something like [[+content_raw:limit=100]]...

I am looking for other placeholders to use here, but haven't found any others so far.

Could anyone help out with suggestions? Any help would be much appreciated.

Looks like [[+title]] works as well, but I would like to get a little more contents out there, as the sharing is at the post level not the thread level.

Oh thank you so much Susan, yeah my instincts are getting better! Wow its so very easy when you "get" it, just a little bit!

Thanks so much! I will put my sharing code over in Discuss section soon ;-)

A word of warning: if you use :filter and the break point occurs inside an HTML tag or a MODX tag, your page may look very strange.

The :ellipsis filter has code to avoid that by closing any unclosed tags, but I don't know if it always works.

If you're sure there are no HTML or MODX tags in the field, :filter will be much faster.

Yeah it seems this is a little dangerous, it has broken my page and even reverting back to the previous code hasn't fixed it. Its screwed up the font size and put a NULL in the top left corner.

actually I think it was the facebook code which broke things. That was scary! Reverting didn't fix it at first, yikes.

You might be able to do something like

then you'd have to provide styling in your own CSS.

Ok thanks. This experimenting just broke Discuss quite comprehensively, and putting everything back isn't fixing it. Sigh.

Ah turns out my friend was working on the site and I didn't know it. So I am going to assume all the errors are due to his work haha. Almost lost it for a second there.