wp_html_excerpt()

wp_html_excerpt() — Safely extracts not more than the first $count characters from HTML string. UTF-8, tags and entities safe prefix extraction. Entities inside will *NOT* be counted as one character. For example & will be counted as 4, < as 3, etc.

Inputs: $str (string): String to get the excerpt from. $count (int): Maximum number of characters to take. $more (string): Optional. What to append if $str needs to be trimmed. Defaults to empty string.

Returns string: The excerpt.