Html - insert html into <p> </p> tags

Let's say I have a text :

<p> hello world! </p>

and I am using a function that cut the text after 5 words and adds " ...show more"

I want the result to be like this :

hello ... show more

Because of the <p> tags what I get is this output :

hello ...show more

what I see when I inspect the element is this :

<p> hello </p> ...show more

I must mention that the text can be with <p> or without.

Is there a way to solve this problem ? Is there a way to insert the added text inside the <p> tag ? I need to mention that I need the <p> tags, I can开发者_Python百科't use strip tags function.

Thanks, Yami

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Do you mean this?

var text = "<p>hello world</p>";
var res = "<p>" + text.substring(3, 8) + " ...show more</p>";

It results in:

<p>hello ...show more</p>

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The way I see it, you have two options:

• .split() the string by spaces (assuming a space separates words) then slice the first (up to) 5 elements. If there are greater than 5 element, add "...read more"; if not, it's unnecessary.
• You can use some regex replace and (with a negative lookahead) ignore the first 5 words, but replace all other text with your "...read more". (I personally find this one having more overhead, but you could probably use (?!(?:[^\b]+?[\b\s]+?){5})(.*)$ as a pattern)

Having said that, here's what i mean with a string split:

function readMore(el){
    var ary = el.innerHTML.split(' ');
    el.innerHTML = (ary.length > 5 ? ary.slice(0,5).join(' ') + '... read more' : ary.join(' '));
}

var p = document.getElementById('foo');
readMore(p);

Assuming of course, for the purposes of this demo, <p id="foo">Hello, world! How are you today?</p> (which would result in <p id="foo">Hello, world! How are you...read more</p>)

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$('p').text($('p').text().replace('world!', '... show more'));