Hi Christian

Using CSS alone it not possible to limit the character count however it is possible to limit the line count? Would this be a suitable solution? If yes, how many lines would you like to set the limit to?

Ciaran

I think about 5 lines...

Actually, I just realise that this will need an override to achieve. May I suggest sending temporary administration access to your Joomla installation to info@joomla51.com and we will create the override for you. For our reference please paste a link to this post in your email.

Ciaran

Hi Ciaran, thank you so far - I wrote you a mail yesterday to info@

Hi Ciaran,

thank you very much for your quick reply!

As already written, it would be nice if in the blog category, instead of always manually inserting the "Weiterlesen" into the text, I automatically received a button to read more ("... mehr »" after xxx characters or even after 6 lines.
There was a plugin for this under Joomla 3, but it no longer seems to be available for Joomla 4.
If you want, you can access my page with admin rights:

http://www.brick.tips/......
User: find in mail
Pass: find in mail

Thank you so much!
Christian

Hi Christian

I have amended your template to give the best possible solution with CSS alone however I realize that it probably drops short of what you are looking to achieve as I notice a couple of issues with it...

• All test wraps to a new line after the image
  
• All paragraphs are lost. Text moved to a single paragraph
  

To revert these changes simply remove the following from your template style custom CSS...

.blog .item-content-inside {

  overflow: hidden;

  text-overflow: ellipsis;

  white-space: initial;

  display: -webkit-box;

  -webkit-line-clamp: 3;

  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;

}

.blog .item-content-inside p + p {

  display: contents;

}

Ciaran