Limiting text output using CFM

I have a news website in which I want to display about three
lines of each entry whiles the rest of the story is read on a
detail page. Can somebody help me out with the code that will
automatically cut off text display and give way to a 'more' link?
Thanks.

That part does not go into the query, but is put onto the
page and it is
what the enduser see's. What the code is saying is show 255
characters from
the left.......of what the query brings back. If you increase
the number 255
then of course it will bring back that much more info....if
you decrease it
will do the opposite.
"chrisdonkor" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:eoa6d6$h3r$[email protected]..
> Hello c_wigginton, thanks for your reply. However, I
have still not been
> able
> to get it to work. This is my <cfoutput> query
>
> <CFOUTPUT query="Comments" maxrows=10>
> <a
>
href="cad_cn_detail.cfm?tblNewsCatID=#tblNewsCatID&tblNewsID=#tblNewsID#"
> class="menu04">#cComment#</a>
> </CFOUTPUT>
>
> where in the above query do I place -
#left(qry.article,255)#
> Thanks for your help.
>

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