Hey guys, Ran into a snag today and was wondering if anyone can give me a hand. I have a blog type application that I''m developing. There is a page "list all entries" which looks like this: Title1 posted by Person1 about 2 hours ago test1 test1test1 test1test1 test1test1 test1test1 test1test1 test1test1 test1... (click here for full post) Title2 posted by Person1 about 2 hours ago test1 test1 test1 test1 test1 test1 test1 test1 test1 test1 test1 test1 test1 test1...(click here for full post) I "preview" the news entries by displaying the first 200 characters of the body of each entry, with a ...(click here for full post) The problem is when I introduce HTML code into the body. If for example, I am in the middle of a hyperlink < a > tag when cutting off at the 200th character, the HTML breaks the whole page. Options: write some type of UBB thing, not allowing html and instead stuff like [link] and [img] My question is, has anyone tackled this? DRY is the name of the game =) Thank you very much, Jin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060328/f8bafa06/attachment.html