symfony 2 twig limit the length of the text and put three dots

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How can I limit the length of the text  e g   50  and put three dots in the display      if myentity text length  gt  50        block td text       myentity text     endblock       endif

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I know this is a very old question  but from twig 1 6 you can use the slice filter      myentity text slice 0  50               The second part from the tilde is optional for if you want to add something for example the ellipsis   Edit  My bad  I see the most up-voted answer do make use of the slice filter

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why not use twig s truncate or wordwrap filter  It belongs to twig extensions and lib is part of Symfony2 0 as i see      text truncate 50

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I wrote this simple marco for the same purpose  hope it helps     - macro stringMaxLength str  maxLength  -         - if str   length  lt  maxLength -              str          - else -              str slice 0  maxLength              - endif -     - endmacro -     Usage Example  1  Output   my long string here             self stringMaxLength  my long string here bla bla bla la   20       Usage Example  2  Output   shorter string          self stringMaxLength  shorter string    20

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An even more elegant solution is to limit the text by the number of words  and not by number of characters   This prevents ugly tear throughs  e g   Stackov        Here s an example where I shorten only text blocks longer than 10 words      set text   myentity text  split              if text length  gt  10            for t in text slice 0  10                t            endfor               else           text join            endif

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myentity text length  gt  50   myentity text slice 0  50            myentity text       You need Twig 1 6

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It is better to use an HTML character     entity text  50     amp  8230

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You can limit in following way  First is starting index and second is number of characters        results  text   4 2

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Update for Twig 2 and Twig 3   truncate filter is not available  instead of it you may use u-filter  here is an example       Lorem ipsum  u truncate 8     Lorem ip      Lorem ipsum  u truncate 8            Lorem      Note  this filter is part of StringExtension that can be required by   twig string-extra

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Bugginess  in the new Drupal 8 capabilities here inspired us to write our own    lt a href     view node     gt    if title length  gt  32      set title array   title split           set title word count   0      for ta in title array      set word count   ta length      if title word count  lt  32      set title word count   title word count   word count      ta       endif      endfor         else      title      endif    lt  a gt    This takes into consideration both words and characters   the  word boundary  setting in D8 was displaying nothing

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olegkhuss solution with named UTF-8 Elipsis       my text length  gt  50   my text slice 0  50            my text

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mshobnr    olegkhuss solution made into a simple macro      macro trunc txt  len  -          txt length  gt  len   txt slice 0  len            txt      - endmacro      Usage example      tools trunc  This is the text to truncate     50       N b  I import a Twig template containing macros and import it as  tools  like this  Symfony       import   AppBundle tools html twig  as tools -     Also  I replaced the html character code with the actual character  this should be no problem when using UTF-8 as the file encoding  This way you don t have to use  raw  as it could cause a security issue

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Another one is      myentity text  50

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Use the truncate filter to cut off a string after limit is reached      Hello World   truncate 5        default separator is          Hello      You can also tell truncate to preserve whole words by setting the second parameter to true  If the last Word is on the the separator  truncate will print out the whole Word        Hello World   truncate 7  true        preserve words      Here Hello World    If you want to change the separator  just set the third parameter to your desired separator       Hello World   truncate 7  false                 Hello W

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