Limiting text output using CFM

chrisdonkor

I have a news website in which I want to display about three lines of each entry whiles the rest of the story is read on a detail page. Can somebody help me out with the code to do that? Below is my output query:

<CFOUTPUT query="Comments" maxrows=10>
<a href="cad_cn_detail.cfm?tblNewsCatID=#tblNewsCatID &tblNewsID=#tblNewsID#" class="menu04">#cComment#</a>
</CFOUTPUT>

Thanks.

acoder

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Originally Posted by chrisdonkor

I have a news website in which I want to display about three lines of each entry whiles the rest of the story is read on a detail page. Can somebody help me out with the code to do that? Below is my output query:

<CFOUTPUT query="Comments" maxrows=10>
<a href="cad_cn_detail.cfm?tblNewsCatID=#tblNewsCatID &tblNewsID=#tblNewsID#" class="menu04">#cComment#</a>
</CFOUTPUT>

Thanks.

Use the left function, but you have to specify the number of characters, e.g.

Expand|Select|Wrap|Line Numbers

 <CFOUTPUT query="Comments" maxrows=10> 

<a href="cad_cn_detail.cfm?tblNewsCatID=#tblNewsCatID&tblNewsID=#tblNewsID#" class="menu04">#left(cComment,100)#</a>

</CFOUTPUT>

Limiting text output using CFM

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