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I'm using the following code in my template to truncate the body of an entry (coming from a Rich Text field):

{{ entry.body | slice(0, 500) | markdown }}

To this, I'd like to add ... as a string, so that it will output like:

Words words words...

Since the field part I'm using outputs into its own <p> tag, adding the ... into the HTML itself has them sitting in two different tags. I've tried using |join but I must be doing something wrong, its putting the first part into a separate <p> tag than the ...

Thanks for your help!

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Try something like 

{{ (entry.body | slice(0, 500) ~ '...') | markdown }}
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  • This is probably really close, but it's not converting it to markdown. Is there a smarter way of outputting the Rich Text's content?
    – jasonetco
    Commented Mar 19, 2016 at 19:40
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    This works perfectly: {{ (entry.body | slice(0, 500) ~ '...') | markdown }}
    – jasonetco
    Commented Mar 19, 2016 at 19:51
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You might find the Hacksaw plugin useful for this https://github.com/ehousestudio/craft_hacksaw/ this will truncate text for you and has a wealth of options available for doing so, specifically the append parameter, which will do exactly what you want :)

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  • Cool, thanks! I'd rather not use a plugin, but this will be my back up answer :)
    – jasonetco
    Commented Mar 19, 2016 at 19:41

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