Abbreviating a description field in a List

Each member of our community is allowed to add a company description to their profile. I'd like to display like 200 characters or so of that description in the List view of that member, instead of the whole description. Is there a way to do that?

You'll need to use CB Code Field to apply PHP to the fields value to shorten it or you can try using CSS. Example using CSS as follows.

Replace FIELD-NAME-HERE with the name of your field. The max length is using a character length of 200 that can be adjusted as needed. Custom CSS can be added to CB using the following.

www.joomlapolis.com/blog/kyle/18711-template-css-overrides-made-easy

Down side of doing this with CSS is it's single line limitation.

Thanks, that did work. But how to remove that separator (top-border)? again at  a2zpreview4.com/accountants-and-bookkeepers

I'm good with removing all of them, or just the one above the abbreviated description.

Tried adding top-border:0 to the css you gave me before, but to no avail

It has a border as it's meant to be a table. If you're not going to use it like a table then use the grid layout. You can enable the grid layout under Parameters > Display of your userlist by setting "Use Grid Layout" to "Yes". Based off the looks of things you want 1 row per user so you'll want to set "Grid Layout Size" to "12" as well. Now you can use the column sizes to control each column spacing within that grid.

Alternatively add "border-0" to the CSS Class parameter for the column you want to hide the border on, but ideally since you're not using a table based display using the grid layout would be better.

Oops, I thought the abbreviating CSS was working, but apparently it takes the first line of every paragraph and displays the first so many characters. Please see  a2zpreview4.com/animal-care

I just need the first so many characters from the entire description.

Seams to be working as it's supposed to. All it does is set a max width based off character length. It will then show an ellipse (...) if possible. You can use the below to also clamp it to a single line.

That should look a bit better on your site. This can be simplified to the following as well if you just want to always only allow for 1 line taking up the full width.

Aside from that you're going to have to use PHP if you need more control over limiting the length and formatting. So you'd need to use a Code field provided by CB Code Field then apply whatever PHP you need to that field by substituting the fields value into your PHP and manipulating it.