Limiting number of characters in text/paragraph field

By: Kathy Kral | Asked: 11/19/2025
ForumsCategory: How-toLimiting number of characters in text/paragraph field
Kathy Kral asked 3 weeks ago

Hi all,

I have my forms set so each text/paragraph field has a limit. But it seems they are able  enter way beyond the limit, which does throw an error message to shorten it up.  And the character count under the field does show how far above they are (example: 103 of 70 max words).

But that's annoying a lot of our users, does Formidable have a feature where they can only enter the specified amount? I see forms where it hits a stopping point and they have to edit right there.

Thanks for any help! Trey

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Kathy Kral answered 3 weeks ago

Worked like a dream, thank you so much, you made my boss very happy  😉

Rob LeVineRob LeVine Staff answered 3 weeks ago

One way is to navigate to your form's Settings->Customize HTML tab and add "maxlength=#" to the input field (where # is the number of characters you want it to stop at).

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