Textarea Maxlength

Hi All,

I have tinyMCE textarea with replicant. Now i want to set maxlength for these textarea replicant. Is it possible to set maxlength for the textarea by excluding all the html tags created by tinyMCE.

How to fix the maxlen function here? Is there is any way to fix it?

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laurent_picquet

i have used regular expression validation on the textarea: http://lpicquet.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/limiting-the-textarea-size-in-forms/

Gowreeswaran_C10

i have used regular expression validation on the textarea: http://lpicquet.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/limiting-the-textarea-size-in-forms/

Thanks for your help. did your validation removes all the html tags formed by tinyMCE. If not how can i remove the HTML tags and then limit the characters?

Pawan

You will have to write custom code to filter the HTML tags from the tinymce textarea and count the allowed characters and numbers.

Gowreeswaran_C10

You will have to write custom code to filter the HTML tags from the tinymce textarea and count the allowed characters and numbers.

Please tell me the steps for writing custom code ? Where i can find the custom codes? I think you are telling to modify the TinyMCE config custom code. Please help me to come out from this problem?

Pawan

When I say custom code, I meant a custom javascript code which can filter out the HTML tags and count the characters within the tinymce textarea. You can easily get a sample code online if you search.

Crsb

Hi All,

I have tinyMCE textarea with replicant. Now i want to set maxlength for these textarea replicant. Is it possible to set maxlength for the textarea by excluding all the html tags created by tinyMCE.

How to fix the maxlen function here? Is there is any way to fix it?

So you got the answer you were looking for, which is to handle this using formapi (see formapi developer guide). but why are you trying to do this in the first place? it sounds like strange requirement to me that you need unlimited html code (formatting) in there but limited text. Usually when a piece of content is restricted in size then it is also somewhat restricted in format, which would make this field a text or textarea field not rich-textarea.

Rick Poulin

Thanks for your help. did your validation removes all the html tags formed by tinyMCE. If not how can i remove the HTML tags and then limit the characters?

His regular expression will count the markup as well. The "custom code" Pawan was suggesting is to use a JavaScript function in combination with the onSave event. It should be fairly easy for you to get the item's value, regex out the markup, check the length of the resulting string, and then either set the field to invalid and kill the save, or set the field to valid and let the save go through.

If that's all gibberish to you, read the FormAPI doc.

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