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---
title: strings.Truncate
description: Returns the given string, truncating it to a maximum length without cutting words or leaving unclosed HTML tags.
categories: []
keywords: []
action:
aliases: [truncate]
related: []
returnType: template.HTML
signatures: ['strings.Truncate SIZE [ELLIPSIS] INPUT']
aliases: [/functions/truncate]
---
Since Go templates are HTML-aware, `truncate` will intelligently handle normal strings vs HTML strings:
```go-html-template
{{ "<em>Keep my HTML</em>" | safeHTML | truncate 10 }} → <em>Keep my …</em>
```
{{% note %}}
If you have a raw string that contains HTML tags you want to remain treated as HTML, you will need to convert the string to HTML using the [`safeHTML`]function before sending the value to `truncate`. Otherwise, the HTML tags will be escaped when passed through the `truncate` function.
[`safeHTML`]: /functions/safe/html/
{{% /note %}}
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