templates - Limit String Twig

Question

How can I limit a string length? I'm getting a description value from my database, but I want to only display a number of specific characters.

• How can I do this in my twig template?
• Is it better to do it within my controller?

Answer 1

Try this :

{{ entity.description|striptags|slice(0, 40) }}

1. the striptags filter will remove the HTML tags, this will avoid to cut a tag in 2, example of this base case: Text ... <img src="http://examp
2. the slice filter will cut the text, keeping only the 40 first characters