Django template tag to truncate text

Question

Django has truncatewords template tag, which cuts the text at the given word count. But there is nothing like truncatechars.

What\'s the best w

Answer 1

You can achieve your goal with similar code:

{{ value_of_text|truncatechars:NUM_OF_CHARS_TO_TRUNCATE}}

where NUM_OF_CHARS_TO_TRUNCATE is number of chars to leave.