I am moving along very nicely on my new site and am hoping to have something to show off in a few weeks for everyone but i ran into a kind of wierd problem that I have had before but would like to make an effort to fix this time around.

I have postings of info and allow the users to use the fck editor in its simplest toolbar mode to add description text to the post - I have a listing of posts where i might pull the first 200 or so characters and display those so people can get a preview of the post

THE PROBLEM - Sometimes when choosing those 200 or so characters i get inbetween the open and close tag in some html and the formating is all wierd and goofy - can someone give me a good solution on how that is fixed in other sites that may do the same thing ? In the past i just ignored it for the most part but I would like to learn how to fix it .

TIA