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How can I restrict the length of the text entered by the user, I want it to be 500 characters maximum.

Thread began 5/31/2013 11:03 am by kbettenc296716 | Last modified 5/31/2013 12:31 pm by Jason Byrnes | 483 views | 3 replies |

5/31/2013 11:03 am | #1 kbettenc296716

How can I restrict the length of the text entered by the user, I want it to be 500 characters maximum.

I have a text field in the database tht we need to restrict to 500 characters, 255 is too small. How can I do this with HTML Editor?

5/31/2013 11:09 am | #2 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

If the field is defined in the database as varchar, you will need to change that field to text instead, varchar is limited to 255 characters maximum. the text data type can take more characters.

5/31/2013 11:32 am | #3 kbettenc296716

I know that, 255 is too small so I can't use a varchar field. The field is define as Text which means it could be huge. I need to restrict that, how do I do it?

5/31/2013 12:31 pm | #4 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

use server validation to validate the HTML Editor instance, select the Entry Length validation and set the max length to 500

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