On e-commerce websites or product display pages, high-quality product descriptions are not only attractive to users' attention but also the key to conversion.However, lengthy or poorly formatted text, even if the content is excellent, may deter users.wordwrapFilter is an unsung yet highly effective tool that can significantly optimize the layout of long texts, making your product description more attractive.

wordwrapFilter: The Layout Tool for Long Texts

In short,wordwrapThe filter is a practical feature of AnQiCMS template engine, which mainly serves to automatically wrap a long text according to the character count we set.Imagine a scenario where the product description of your product is like a wall of text without proper punctuation, making it seem impenetrable and causing the reader to feel overwhelmed and difficult to digest.wordwrap就像一位细心的编辑，在不改变原意的前提下，为您的文字找到合适的“呼吸点”，让它们以更易读的形态呈现，从而显著改善用户的阅读体验。

How to apply in AnQiCMS product descriptionwordwrap?

Apply in AnQiCMS templateswordwrapThe filter is very intuitive. You just need to pass the text variable to be processed through the pipe character|Pass towordwrapand specify a numeric parameter, which represents the maximum number of characters you want to display per line. Its basic syntax structure is as follows:{{ obj|wordwrap:number }}.

For example, suppose your product detail content is usually stored inarchive.ContentVariables in, and you want each line of text in these descriptions to be approximately 60 characters long, you can write the template code like this:

<div class="product-description">
    {{ archive.Content|wordwrap:60|safe }}
</div>

Here,archive.ContentIs a variable containing product description text,wordwrap:60The system attempts to break lines when it reaches about 60 characters per line, while|safeThe filter is used to ensure that any HTML tags (if any) in the content can be parsed correctly and not displayed as escaped.

wordwrapThe actual optimization effect brought

ApplywordwrapThe filter can bring multifaceted optimization to your product description:

  1. Improve reading experienceEnglish text is no longer an insurmountable barrier.Through automatic line wrapping, the originally dense blocks of text are decomposed into smaller, more readable paragraphs. Users can easily read line by line, understand the content, effectively reduce visual fatigue, and improve content digestion efficiency.

  2. Enhance aesthetics and adaptabilityIn the multi-device browsing environment of today, screen widths vary. Manual line breaks are difficult to adapt to various sizes and are prone to text overflow or leaving a lot of blank space.wordwrapIt can automatically adjust according to the maximum number of characters you set (and indirectly adapt to the container width), ensuring that the content maintains a neat layout on PCs, tablets, mobile phones, and any screen size, enhancing the overall beauty and professionalism of the webpage.

  3. Maintain a unified visual style: No manual intervention required, all applicationswordwrapThe product description will follow consistent formatting rules.This consistency in automation is crucial for maintaining the brand image and professionalism of the website, making the overall visual style of the website more unified and professional.

  4. Effectively prevent overflow issues：尤其是当内容区块宽度有限时，如果产品描述中包含无空格的长串英文单词、数字序列或URL，它们可能会导致文本溢出容器，破坏页面布局。wordwrapCan effectively avoid such problems, ensuring that the content remains within its designated area at all times.

wordwrapCharacteristics for processing Chinese content

However, when usingwordwrapFilter processing Chinese content has an important feature to note: it mainly relies onspaces or specific punctuation marksIdentify word boundaries and perform line breaks. This means that if your Chinese text is continuous Chinese characters without any spaces or common English punctuation symbols,wordwrapThe text will not be forced to wrap between Chinese characters.It will treat it as an indivisible 'word', even if it exceeds the set character count, and will wait for the next 'word' boundary that can be broken (such as after an English word, number, or Chinese punctuation, followed by a space) before breaking.wordwrapIt may not break at every N characters as you expect, instead, it prioritizes the integrity of words.Understanding this feature helps us better anticipate its effects and write content.

Through the reasonable use of AnQiCMS'swordwrapFilter, we can easily enhance the visual appeal and user reading experience of product descriptions.It allows you to free yourself from the tedious manual layout and focus on the creation of the content itself.Today, with the emphasis on both efficiency and user experience, mastering such small yet beautiful features will undoubtedly elevate your website's operation to a new level.

Common Questions (FAQ)

Q1:wordwrapWhy doesn't the filter strictly follow the number of characters I set for line breaks when processing Chinese content? A1: wordwrapThe filter is designed to identify "word" boundaries and perform line breaks based on spaces and specific punctuation, aiming to maintain the integrity of words. For continuous Chinese text, as there are usually no spaces between Chinese characters,wordwrapIt will treat it as a long 'word', so it will not force line breaks in the middle of Chinese characters, but will wait until the next breakable word boundary (such as an English word, number, or Chinese punctuation followed by a space) to break.

Q2: If my product description contains HTML tags,wordwrapwill it break these tags? A2: wordwrapThe filter primarily acts on text content and does not actively parse or disrupt the structure of HTML tags. Usually, when you pass rich text content (which may contain HTML) towordwrapauto，建议同时使用|safeFilter, for example{{ archive.Content|wordwrap:60|safe }}.|safe的作用是告诉模板引擎这部分内容是安全的HTML，不需要进行转义，从而确保原有的HTML标签能够正常渲染。

Q3:wordwrapfilters andlinebreaksbrWhat are the differences between filters? Which one should I choose? A3:These filters solve different problems.

  • wordwrap: Based on the maximum number of characters you set and the "word" boundaries of the text (such as spaces),Automatic creationBreak lines to limit the length of each line, optimizing the overall layout. It does not process the original line breaks in the text.
  • linebreaksbris used to separatealready existsline breaks in the text (\n),<br/>Labels, to display original line breaks in text on web pages. It does not care about line width, only converts explicit line breaks.

If you want to control the display length of each line to adapt to the layout, please use `word