Umbraco 9 - Strip HTML and Truncate text output

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Umbraco 9 - Strip HTML and Truncate text/html output. 

The code below can be used for truncating/shortening text and striping out HTML tags in Umbraco 9 to display shorter text useful for landing pages.

Instructions: 

  1. Replace "bodyText" with the reference to the property you would like to truncate.

Code:

<p>@Html.StripHtml(@Html.Truncate(@item.Value("bodyText").ToString(), 85))</p>
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Example output:





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