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truncate html and keep tag in safe
https://github.com/oe/truncate-html

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truncate html and keep tag in safe

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/oe/truncate-html
• Owner: oe
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-11-25T03:13:48.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-18T15:03:20.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-12T11:14:46.889Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: html, truncate, truncate-html, truncate-words
• Language: TypeScript
• Size: 1.18 MB
• Stars: 62
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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truncate-html


 Truncate html string(even contains emoji chars) and keep tags in safe. You can custom ellipsis sign, ignore unwanted elements and truncate html by words. 



  

    

  

  

    

  

  

    

  

  

    

  






**Notice** This is a node module depends on [cheerio](https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio) _can only run on nodejs_. If you need a browser version, you may consider [truncate](https://github.com/pathable/truncate) or [nodejs-html-truncate](https://github.com/huang47/nodejs-html-truncate).

```javascript

const truncate = require('truncate-html')

truncate('
Hello from earth!
', 2, { byWords: true })

// => 
Hello from ...

```


## Installation

`npm install truncate-html` 


or 


`yarn add truncate-html`

## Try it online

Click **** to try.

## API

```ts

/**

 * custom node strategy, default to Cheerio

 * * 'remove' to remove the node

 * * 'keep' to keep the node(and anything inside it) anyway, and won't be counted as there is no text content in it

 * * Cheerio truncate the returned node

 * * undefined or any falsy value to truncate original node

 */

type ICustomNodeStrategy = (node: Cheerio) => 'remove' | 'keep' | Cheerio | undefined

/**

 * truncate-html full options object

 */

interface IFullOptions {

  /**

   * remove all tags, default false

   */

  stripTags: boolean

  /**

   * ellipsis sign, default '...'

   */

  ellipsis: string

  /**

   * decode html entities(e.g. convert `&` to `&`) before counting length, default false

   */

  decodeEntities: boolean

  /**

   * elements' selector you want ignore

   */

  excludes: string | string[]

  /**

   * custom node strategy, default to Cheerio

   * * 'remove' to remove the node

   * * 'keep' to keep the node(and anything inside it) anyway, and won't be counted as there is no text content in it

   * * Cheerio truncate the returned node

   * * undefined or any falsy value to truncate original node

   */

  customNodeStrategy: ICustomNodeStrategy

  /**

   * how many letters(words if `byWords` is true) you want reserve

   */

  length: number

  /**

   * if true, length means how many words to reserve

   */

  byWords: boolean

  /**

   * how to deal with when truncate in the middle of a word

   *  1. by default, just cut at that position.

   *  2. set it to true, with max exceed 10 letters can exceed to reserver the last word

   *  3. set it to a positive number decide how many letters can exceed to reserve the last word

   *  4. set it to negative number to remove the last word if cut in the middle.

   */

  reserveLastWord: boolean | number

  /**

   * if reserveLastWord set to negative number, and there is only one word in the html string,  when trimTheOnlyWord set to true, the extra letters will be sliced if word's length longer than `length`.

   * see issue #23 for more details

   */

  trimTheOnlyWord: boolean

  /**

   * keep whitespaces, by default continuous paces will

   *  be replaced with one space, set it true to keep them

   */

  keepWhitespaces: boolean

}

/**

 * options interface for function

 */

type IOptions = Partial

function truncate(html: string | CheerioAPI, length?: number | IOptions,  truncateOptions?: IOptions): string

// and truncate.setup to change default options

truncate.setup(options: IOptions): void

```

### Default options

```js

{

  stripTags: false,

  ellipsis: '...',

  decodeEntities: false,

  excludes: '',

  byWords: false,

  reserveLastWord: false,

  trimTheOnlyWord: false,

  keepWhitespaces: false

}

```

You can change default options by using `truncate.setup`

e.g.

```ts

truncate.setup({ stripTags: true, length: 10 })

truncate('
Hello from earth!
')

// => Hello from

```


or use existing [cheerio instance](https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio#loading)

```ts

import * as cheerio from 'cheerio'

truncate.setup({ stripTags: true, length: 10 })

// truncate option `decodeEntities` will not work

//    you should config it in cheerio options by yourself

const $ = cheerio.load('
Hello from earth!
', {

  /** set decodeEntities if you need it */

  decodeEntities: true

  /* any cheerio instance options*/

}, false) // third parameter is for `isDocument` option, set to false to get rid of extra wrappers, see cheerio's doc for details

truncate($)

// => Hello from

```


## Notice

### Typescript support

This lib is written with typescript and has a type definition file along with it. ~~You may need to update your `tsconfig.json` by adding `"esModuleInterop": true` to the `compilerOptions` if you encounter some typing errors, see [#19](https://github.com/oe/truncate-html/issues/19).~~

```ts

import truncate, { type IOptions } from 'truncate-html'

const html = '
italicboldThis is a string
 for test.'


const options: IOptions = {

  length: 10,

  byWords: true

}

truncate(html, options)

// => 
italicbold...

```


### custom node truncate strategy

In complex html string, you may want to keep some special elements and truncate the others. You can use `customNodeStrategy` to achieve this:

* return `'remove'` to remove the node

* `keep` to keep the node(and anything inside it) anyway, and won't be counted as there is no text content in it

* `Cheerio` to truncate the returned node, or any falsy value to truncate the original node.

```ts

import truncate, { type IOptions, type ICustomNodeStrategy } from 'truncate-html'

// argument node is a cheerio instance

const customNodeStrategy: ICustomNodeStrategy = node => {

  // remove img tag

  if (node.is('img')) {

    return 'remove'

  }

  // keep italic tag and its children

  if (node.is('i')) {

    return 'keep'

  }

  // truncate summary tag that inside details tag instead of details tag

  if (node.is('details')) {

    return node.find('summary')

  }

}

const html = '


italicboldClick me
Some details
This is a string
 for test.'


const options: IOptions = {

  length: 10,

  customNodeStrategy

}

truncate(html, options)

// => 


italicboldClick me
Some details
Th...


```

### About final string length

If the html string content's length is shorter than `options.length`, then no ellipsis will be appended to the final html string. If longer, then the final string length will be `options.length` + `options.ellipsis`. And if you set `reserveLastWord` to true or none zero number or using `customNodeStrategy`, the final string will be various.

### About html comments

All html comments `` will be removed

### About dealing with none alphabetic languages

When dealing with none alphabetic languages, such as Chinese/Japanese/Korean, they don't separate words with whitespaces, so options `byWords` and `reserveLastWord` should only works well with alphabetic languages.

And the only dependency of this project `cheerio` has an issue when dealing with none alphabetic languages, see [Known Issues](#known-issues) for details.

### Using existing cheerio instance

If you want to use existing cheerio instance, truncate option `decodeEntities` will not work, you should set it in your own cheerio instance:

```js

var html = '
This is a string
 for test.'

const $ = cheerio.load(`${html}`, {

  decodeEntities: true

  /** other cheerio options */

}, false) // third parameter is for `isDocument` option, set to false to get rid of extra wrappers, see cheerio's doc for details

truncate($, 10)


```

## Examples

```javascript

var truncate = require('truncate-html')

// truncate html

var html = '
This is a string
 for test.'

truncate(html, 10)

// returns: 
This is a ...


// truncate string with emojis

var string = '
poo 💩💩💩💩💩
'

truncate(string, 6)

// returns: 
poo 💩💩...


// with options, remove all tags

var html = '
This is a string
 for test.'

truncate(html, 10, { stripTags: true })

// returns: This is a ...


// with options, truncate by words.

//  if you try to truncate none alphabet language(like CJK)

//      it will not act as you wish

var html = '
This is a string
 for test.'

truncate(html, 3, { byWords: true })

// returns: 
This is a ...


// with options, keep whitespaces

var html = '
         This is a string
 for test.'

truncate(html, 10, { keepWhitespaces: true })

// returns: 
         This is a ...


// combine length and options

var html = '
This is a string
 for test.'

truncate(html, {

  length: 10,

  stripTags: true

})

// returns: This is a ...


// custom ellipsis sign

var html = '
This is a string
 for test.'

truncate(html, {

  length: 10,

  ellipsis: '~'

})

// returns: 
This is a ~


// exclude some special elements(by selector), they will be removed before counting content's length

var html = '
This is a string
 for test.'

truncate(html, {

  length: 10,

  ellipsis: '~',

  excludes: 'img'

})

// returns: 
This is a ~


// exclude more than one category elements

var html =

  '
This is a string
 unwanted string inserted ( ´•̥̥̥ω•̥̥̥` ）
 for test.'

truncate(html, {

  length: 20,

  stripTags: true,

  ellipsis: '~',

  excludes: ['img', '.something-unwanted']

})

// returns: This is a string for~


// handing encoded characters

var html = '
 test for <p> encoded string
'

truncate(html, {

  length: 20,

  decodeEntities: true

})

// returns: 
 test for <p> encode...


// when set decodeEntities false

var html = '
 test for <p> encoded string
'

truncate(html, {

  length: 20,

  decodeEntities: false // this is the default value

})

// returns: 
 test for <p...


// and there may be a surprise by setting `decodeEntities` to true  when handing CJK characters

var html = '
 test for <p> 中文 string
'

truncate(html, {

  length: 20,

  decodeEntities: true

})

// returns: 
 test for <p> 中文 str...

// to fix this, see below for instructions


// custom node strategy to keep some special elements

var html = '
italicboldThis is a string
 for test.'

truncate(html, {

  length: 10,

  customNodeStrategy: node => {

    if (node.is('img')) {

      return 'remove'

    }

    if (node.is('i')) {

      return 'keep'

    }

  }

})

// returns: 
italicboldThis is a ...


// custom node strategy to truncate summary instead of original node

var html = '
Click me
Some details
other things
'

truncate(html, {

  length: 10,

  customNodeStrategy: node => {

    if (node.is('details')) {

      return node.find('summary')

    }

  }

})

// returns: 
Click me
Some details
ot...

```


for More usages, check [truncate.spec.ts](./test/truncate.spec.ts)

## Credits

Thanks to:

- [@calebeno](https://github.com/calebeno) es6 support and unit tests

- [@aaditya-thakkar](https://github.com/aaditya-thakkar) emoji truncating support