MAIAN MEDIA

Hi,
Is there a way to reduce the text from journals that are displayed?
I'm trying to get them to display with about 80 words with a "Read More..." link at the end that they can click or they can click on the title to view the full article. I've managed to add the Read More... link at the end of the blog\content\_theme_default\journal.htm file by changing

<div class="panel-body">
            {information}
</div>

to

<div class="panel-body">
            {information}
            <br>
            <a href="{url}" title="{url_text}">Read More...</a>
</div>

Some of our articles are 1600-2500 words so to have them displayed in full while people are flicking through the website is going to be a pain for them.
It would be great to truncate them on the main page and on the categories pages but to only have them in full if a reader wants to.

Thanks

Carl

I've spent a good 2 hours looking into but I've given up. It would help if I could find the panel-body command it references so I could duplicate it to include the truncate CSS but I can't. I don't even know how to mess about with javascript. All javascripts demonstrate how to truncate text as it appears but the html file pulls the text with the {information}  command and I don't know where to start with it.
Is it possible to include a new field to upload to the SQL database that you can enter shorter text when adding or managing a journal?

I've done it. Anyone wanting to incorporate the change, open content/theme_default/html/journal.htm

Replace lines 5-7 which are
          <div class="panel-body">
            {information}
          </div>
with
           <div class="panel-body">
            <div  style="    overflow: hidden !important;
    max-height: 554px;">{information}</div>
            <br>
        <p class="text-right">
            <a href="{url}" title="{url_text}">Read More...</a></p>
          </div>

The max-height can be changed to whatever you wish.