Question

This is a very simple question.

I have a Html.helper:

@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.Text)

How to I cut down the string from item.Text to a specific length? I wish you could do a SubString or something directly on the item.Text.

If youre wondering why I want this, its because the strings are very long, and I only want to show a bit of it in like the index view etc.

Answer 1

You could just add a property onto your view model that does the truncation of the string and display that instead:

// View model
public string TextShort { get { return Text.Substring(0, 10); } }

// View
@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.TextShort)