GoTruncateHtml

README

truncatehtml

truncatehtml is a Go package that contains just one function that will truncate a given byte slice to a maximum of maxlen visible characters and optionally append a string before closing any open tags (e.g. for an ellipsis). HTML tags are automatically closed generating valid HTML.

Usage

Import the package in your Go program.

import (
    "github.com/mborgerson/GoTruncateHtml/truncatehtml"
)

Call TruncateHtml passing in the byte slice, the max len, and the string that should be appended to the truncated HTML before closing the open tags.

func TruncateHtml(buf []byte, maxlen int, ellipsis string) ([]byte, error)

License

The MIT license.