This page last changed on Aug 15, 2012 by yuriy.kalynovskiy@involver.com.

Overview

This filter truncates a string if it's larger than a specified number of words.


Attributes

type required description
integer true The maximum number of words in the resulting string.

Examples

Shorten a string to 4 words

If you wanted to take the string "Mary had a little lamb." and truncate it to 4 words, you'd use:

{{ "Mary had a little lamb." | truncatewords: 4 }}

The above code results in the following string:

Mary had a little...

Shorten the same string to 3 words

If you wanted to take the string "Mary had a little lamb." and truncate it to 3 words instead of 4, you'd use:

{{ "Mary had a little lamb." | truncatewords: 3 }}

The above code results in the following string:

Mary had a...

FAQ

  1. Can I make sure that I don't get a string longer than n characters?
    No, if you need to truncate to a certain number of characters, you can use the truncate filter instead (see below).

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