Inline <!--more--> summary separator creates paragraphs

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Imagine I have the following content doc:

sentence1 hello world. <!--more--> sentence2 hello world.

another paragraph..

As you’d see, the summary here is only the sentence1[…].

However, when I try to use {{.Summary}} and add a “Read More →” like this:

          {{ .Summary}}

          <a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">
              <b>Read More &rarr;</b>
          </a>

The summary is surrounded in a paragraph (<p>). Therefore the “Read More →” link is pushed to a separate paragraph like this when HTML is rendered:

sentence1 hello world.

Read More →

I’m coming from another CMS (Pelican) where this was not the case.

Is there a way to prevent this?

2

You can set variables and and build the summary manually. I wouldn’t, I don’t think the read more button belongs in that paragraph. :slight_smile:

3

See this previous thread for some ideas: Inconsistent behavior with .Summary tag

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5

I’ve noticed there’s no easy way around this, so I hacked this:

Pretty much every {{.Summary}} will end with </p> regardless of having a <!--more--> separator or not.

Therefore I will (1) delete the final </p>, insert my Read More link, add </p> again to keep the paragraph intact. It looks like this:

{{ replaceRE "(</p>)?$" "" .Summary | safeHTML }}
<a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">
  Read more &rarr;
</a>
{{ printf "</p>" | safeHTML }}