title: Truncate Text from Rich Text Editor - Umbraco 8
body: <p>Im trying to truncate the article text to display only the first 100 characters of the string.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    @item.Value("articleContent").ToString().Truncate(100) &lt;a href="@item.Url"&gt;Read More..&lt;/a&gt;
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  <p>This works perfectly to truncate the string - but it displays the <code>&lt;p&gt;</code> tag at the begining.</p>
  
  <p>This is what it looks like -</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In aliquet sapien non posuere pretium... Read More..
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  <p>How can I avoid displaying the HTML Tags?</p>