Limit text displayed

This might be more of a client-side html question but I’m using sqlserver and coldfusion in conjunction to thought I’d post my question here.

I have a simple little database that stores project information. One of the fields is for project description/status. The client will want to add stuff to this periodically over time. I am using sqlserver to create and store the tables and coldfusion to display information from queries on a webpage.

The client would like only the first say 5 lines of text to show, with one of those little “read more” hyperlinks that will pull up all of the text. I know I can use left(200) or whatever to pull out the first x amount of characters out of the text but what is the best way to handle the “read more” hyperlink?

Any thoughts welcome. Oh, and I don’t know any php or javascript so if you are going to suggest bits of those codes please give me the full thing. Thanks!

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