How to restore / close truncated html tags..?

[Taffy1957]

Hi Guys,

 

My 2nd issue with my new blog is that the code used to limit the amount of content displayed from each post, is on occasion truncating the closing html tags along with the excess text! Very often this will result in any following posts being entirely italic or bold, which as you can imagine looks ridiculous.

The Code that limits the content:

# Limit Post
function the_content_limit($max_char, $more_link_text = '', $stripteaser = 0, $more_file = '') {
    $content = get_the_content($more_link_text, $stripteaser, $more_file);
    $content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
    $content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
    $content = strip_tags($content, '<h1>,<h2>,<h3>,<strong>,<em>, ');
   if (strlen($_GET['p']) > 0) {

 

I'd be very grateful if someone could help me out with this.

Thanks Steve