You're right but this is not the aim... HTML should stay... think of <p>I am a <b>greedy</b> </i>little</i> Test, and gonna get <b>correctly cropped</b></p> and this shoul get cut off after 22 characters (the text) The correct result would be: <p>I am a <b>greedy</b> </i>little</i> Test</p> regards Steffen