I recently started using Django for a hobby-project I am working on.
I often find myself wanting to only print the first N characters of a text field in a template. For example, if you don’t want to clutter a table or similar.
The way to show only the first N characters of a string is by using
|slice:N,
where N is the number of characters to show.
Example use:
{{ deal.next_action | slice:50}}
However, often when you want to truncate a text like this, you typically also
want to add ... at the end if the string is truncated.
Luckily, Django has a
built in function
for this: truncatechars.
Example use:
{{ deal.next_action | truncatechars:50}}