# Paragraph styling problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paragraph-styling-problem/187724>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 28, 2010, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paragraph-styling-problem/187724 "2010-04-28T10:57:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahul_m)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paragraph-styling-problem/187724/1 "2010-04-28T10:57:13Z")

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hello ,

i have following content in my string …  
str="

hiii

&nbsp;

rahul mehta

";

i want to show first 150 character in a single line how i cant show it

pleas help…

thanks

rahul

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**Author:** ![rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahul_m)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 11:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paragraph-styling-problem/187724/2 "2010-04-28T11:07:46Z")

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Paragraphs (

) are printed on new lines, that’s how HTML works.  
If you dont want that, dont use paragraphs.

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**Author:** ![rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahul_m)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paragraph-styling-problem/187724/3 "2010-04-28T11:13:37Z")

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hii

actually m using tinymce editor so

tag is automatically created so  
i cant remove them, is there is any other way.

thanks

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**Author:** ![rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahul_m)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 11:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paragraph-styling-problem/187724/4 "2010-04-28T11:42:54Z")

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There exists a ruby library for HTML sanitizing, which would solve  
your issue:  
[http://wonko.com/post/sanitize](http://wonko.com/post/sanitize)