Cutting HTML strings without breaking HTML tags

Question

How to write a function that can cut a string with HTML tags to an N-length string without breaking HTML tags while doing it.

The returned string doesn\'t need to b

Answer 1

In javascript, you can use the textContent property of DOM elements to obtain this.

HTML

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Javascript

var el = document.getElementById("mytext");
console.log( el.textContent );
//alert( el.textContent ); // if you don't have firebug.