Text Area Character Limits

  • yukon4

    (@yukon4)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    First – thanks for creating this wonderful plugin. I use it a lot!

    My question:
    When creating a “text area” field, we specify a character limit. Is there a way to display or let users know when they have reached the character limit in the text area? (as I’ve seen many forms do)

    Right now, after typing into the “text area” it provides no information that you are approaching the limit or exceeding the limit, and after you submit, it simply tells you that you have “exceeded the limit of XXX characters”. The user doesn’t know whether they exceeded the limit by only one character, or by many, many characters (and thus, paragraphs).

    Is there a way to provide a little more information to help users type in submissions and not have to do trial and error in order to know how much they can submit? Preferably, the text area would NOT allow the user to type anymore than the field will accept. This way, users can edit their entry accordingly knowing what the character limit is.

    Hope this makes sense!

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  • mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, unfortunately at present that feature is not available in the plugin. I will send a message to the plugin developer to investigate further your request.

    Thank you

    Michael J Challis

    (@mikechallis)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hi there is no setting for it, you might have to hire a programmer. Sorry

    1066geoff

    (@1066geoff)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Yes, the lack of this feature is the one and only thing that lets FSCF down. Either limit the field to x characters or display the amount used as a user types would improve things 100% on this.

    Great plugin in all other respects, thank you !!

    will2016

    (@will2016)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve been running into this recently as well. Customers enter data, but after an unknown number of characters they are cut off and they don’t know it.

    Not sure what to do. A character limit indicator would be good, but unlimited or higher textarea box levels would be better.

    Other than that issue this is an excellent plugin, but it is a big issue, and I might lose business when customers realize later that their orders were cut off and they didn’t know that was happening when they ordered.

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