# Truncate Rich or Basic Text?

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/truncate-rich-or-basic-text/6170
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [March 30, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/truncate-rich-or-basic-text/6170 "2020-03-30T21:27:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![onepixelman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/onepixelman/32/130_2.png) [@onepixelman](https://community.glideapps.com/u/onepixelman)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/truncate-rich-or-basic-text/6170/1 "2020-03-30T21:27:16Z")

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I recently found that I can truncate Text blocks, and it was really useful. Any chance that we’ll be able to truncate Rich or Basic Text blocks in the future?

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### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/truncate-rich-or-basic-text/6170/2 "2020-04-04T15:08:17Z")

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Basic Text has a Trim to first 4 lines. Not as robust as basic text, but similar. I don’t see anything for Rich Text.

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### Author: ![Krivo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/krivo/32/5363_2.png) [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/truncate-rich-or-basic-text/6170/3 "2020-04-08T20:48:49Z")

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Would be very beneficial to have truncate option for rich text

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### Author: ![Brandyouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Brandyouth](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Brandyouth)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/truncate-rich-or-basic-text/6170/4 "2022-01-24T14:30:25Z")

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I agree. Are you aware of any update on this feature request?

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### Author: ![Eric\_Penn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/eric_penn/32/73888_2.png) [@Eric\_Penn](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Eric_Penn)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/truncate-rich-or-basic-text/6170/5 "2022-01-24T15:11:52Z")

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I haven’t tried but maybe it could work if you use the truncate plugin and then used the output of that plug-in in a template column. Finally use the template column in a rich text component.

For basic text you could probably just target the truncate plug-in directly and display your text.

> **[Truncate Text column • Glide](https://www.glideapps.com/plugins/truncate)**
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> Truncates a string if it is longer than the specified number of characters. Truncated strings will end with a translatable ellipsis sequence ("…").

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### Author: ![Brandyouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Brandyouth](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Brandyouth)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/truncate-rich-or-basic-text/6170/6 "2022-01-24T18:16:41Z")

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Thanks. I’ll give it a try.