topic Limit number of characters on a text widget in CMS Development

Limit number of characters on a text widget

LDouglas8 — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 08:02:22 GMT

So I have a text widget that I'm using to add text content to a Hubspot site. The client needs that it's able to be capped at a certain number of characters, say 400 so that one can not type beyond the specified number of characters.

Here is a screenshot of the widget that I'm talking about.

In the Design toolsHow it looks like on the Landing page

The idea is that one shouldn't be able to type past a certain number of characters.

Re: Limit number of characters on a text widget

felixmacaspac — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 01:13:27 GMT

Hey @LDouglas8 based on my experience I think it's impossible to limit the characters in the content editor. Alternatively, what you can do is use the truncate hubL filter.

you can do something like this: