[Resuelto] Limit Number of Allowed Words (Not Characters) in a Form Field

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[Ed]

I'm building a website for a classified ads company. I need to limit the number of WORDS (not characters) in a text field or text area. Is there a way to do this?

[Nigel]

Hi Ed

There isn't any such option within Toolset. In the forums you'll see people have worked on their own solutions to this over the years, though typically when limiting the field length by characters.

It's straightforward enough to count the words instead (by counting spaces), see this as an example: enlace oculto.

You'd need to write some jQuery/JavaScript which attaches an event listener for changes to the input field, counts the number of words, and disables the input once it reaches the limit.

I didn't come across a solution that matches your requirement for words, and as this is custom code you'll need to come up with the solution, but you should be able to find some examples to get you started in the forum.

[Ed]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!