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

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Last updated by Ed 4 years, 2 months ago.

Assisted by: Nigel.

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August 22, 2020 at 5:07 pm #1749475

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?

August 24, 2020 at 12:32 pm #1753645

Nigel

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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: hidden link.

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.

August 24, 2020 at 2:11 pm #1753745

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!