Hi Guys

If I use and article page or blog or anything else if I call it to display on another page, Then the text that is in bold is displayed with asterisk around what is meant to be bold like this *bold* is this a simple css problem, whats the best way to fix it?

Thanks in advance

I am looking into the same problem, when I add $Content.LimitWordCount(30)
it removes the strong tag and leaves the asterix's around the text. Removing the limit, and leaving content makes it display correctly.

This is the article I can find on variables, all have the same affect.
http://doc.silverstripe.org/doku.php?id=htmltext

yep, same problem, has anyone solved this problem? thanks in advance

FireMe! any further to finding a solution to this problem?

I have been trawling through the forums, and found questions regarding this for both styles and images but I can't find a solution.

why isn't articlepage bringing through any of the styles? or formatting?

I found these posts regarding the issue, it seems that the html is being stripped out leaving the asterisks:

http://www.silverstripe.org/customising-the-cms/show/255639#post255639
http://www.silverstripe.org/archive/show/248933#post248933
http://www.silverstripe.org/template-questions/show/259050#post259050

Sadly these don't seem to answer the problem, anyone have a solution?

Well so far the best I have found is to use:

$Content.Summary(60)

which is removing the asterisks, but also removing all the Html formatting. Does anybody have an answer on how to show a portion of the content without losing the formatting?

Well, the problem with cutting the html is, that you might cut your content in between opening and closing tags.
Something like:
Lorem ipsum <strong>dolor sit amet, consectetur</strong> adipiscing elit.
Might end up like this:
Lorem ipsum <strong>dolor sit amet
or like this:
Lorem ipsum <strong>dolor sit amet, consectetur</st
which is even worse. You'll end up with invalid html code in either of these scenarios.

This is quite a tricky problem, and converting to plain text is by far the easiest solution. If you find a good algorithm to limit the character or word count of html code, without generating invalid html, then you could implement your own text-parser: http://api.silverstripe.com/default/TextParser.html

I am not sure how I would implement a text parser. Is there any examples?

I have been looking at the blog module, looking at the code could I use something from here to pull a limited text.
How about the following? could it be adapted?

	/**
	 * Get a bbcode parsed summary of the blog entry
	 */
	function ParagraphSummary(){
		if(self::$allow_wysiwyg_editing) {
			return $this->obj('Content')->FirstParagraph('html');
		} else {
			$parser = new BBCodeParser($this->Content);
			$html = new HTMLText('Content');
			$html->setValue($parser->parse());
			return $html->FirstParagraph('html');
		}
	}

unfortunately this is just returning the whole text with code.
Is there a simple answer to this, I need to use this a lot in the site I am building.