My K2 setup is 3 categories being news, features, events. (I have to use 3 categories because each has different additional fields.)

I created a menu item called articles and I wanted to display the latest articles from these 3 categories and limit the introtext to 60 words but can't see how to do this on the multi-category page. Instead it displays everything above the read more separator which is not ideal.

Any suggestions? I am using version 2.4.1 at the moment.

I am facing the same pronblem actually - but it seems, noone has any ideas how to fix this essential problem here...

I have the same issue, but an idea kicked in as I was look for a quick fix, until well the Busy K2 Team decides to look in this issue, I just change the Introtext div (div.catItemIntroText) to whatever size I wanted and made the overflow hidden, lol it kind of works for now.

Hi,
did you found another solution to this?

If not ... Sophie Haba ... can you explain it to me again?! I didn't understand what I have to do to make it work.. :huh:

Sorry, I'm a newbie! :blush:

Hey Pata srry for responding, I don' check the forum often. I went to find the k2 css which is in (USE FTP) if you don't already know....Components.....com_K2.......css.....open the k2.css
find the div.catItemIntroText edit that to whatever you want. here is my exact code div.catItemIntroText {
font-size:inherit;
font-weight:normal;
line-height:inherit;
height: 120px;
padding-top: 4px;
padding-right: 0;
padding-bottom: 12px;
padding-left: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}

Hope this helps

This is not a good solution, especially for SEO.
This problem is not only on multi-categories page but also on "Search, Tags, Date and on User" pages, check it.
Well, BTW I have already solved this problem after scratching my head for 2 days with PHP coding.

Another thing is if you use this method
height:120px;
overflow:hidden;

then you have to edit your k2.css file each time if you want to change the word limit (height in your case).