fixed lines of paragraph tag

fixed lines of paragraph tag

Hi All,

I have a requirement where i have some text in the <p> tag... Now i want to show only two lines of the p tag and truncate the remaining content in the <p> tag . This can be achieved by fixing the height p tag but i have a anchor tag at the end which also should fit into the two lines....

<p>lorem ipsum lorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum<a href="#">anchor link</a></p>

This is the HTML i want the the anchor to be present always in the p tag.. how to do it without fixing the height...
Thanks in advance