Avoid splitting of HTML tags in string

[azeem]

I have a custom made news page in my website. The problem is adding a "more" option if the string returned from the database exceeds 400 characters. Splitting the string after 400 characters may sometimes mean that an HTML tag might be split in half, or text contained within the html tag will be split, not giving the right look when splitted. Is there anyway I can possibly avoid this, or am I going at this all wrong?I am currently using the Literal Control to display the string, and if the string.length > 400 I use the substring method to obtain the first 400 characters for display.If the "more" option is clicked, I will display the full string.