# Limit the amount of charachters in a text area?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limit-the-amount-of-charachters-in-a-text-area/8607>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [June 24, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limit-the-amount-of-charachters-in-a-text-area/8607 "2014-06-24T11:51:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![drewdin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/drewdin/32/3363_2.png) [@drewdin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/drewdin)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limit-the-amount-of-charachters-in-a-text-area/8607/1 "2014-06-24T11:51:37Z")

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Is there an easy way to limit the amount of characters that are typed into a text area? I could probably do something with scripting but i wanted to see if there was an easier way.

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**Author:** ![drewdin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/drewdin/32/3363_2.png) [@drewdin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/drewdin)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limit-the-amount-of-charachters-in-a-text-area/8607/2 "2014-06-25T14:14:21Z")

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crickets chirping…

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**Author:** ![drewdin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/drewdin/32/3363_2.png) [@drewdin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/drewdin)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limit-the-amount-of-charachters-in-a-text-area/8607/3 "2019-10-02T12:15:45Z")

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Not sure I was prompted to take a look at the post but 5 years strong! There should be an award for “ask a question with no answers”. Funny part is I don’t know why I had the question in the first place

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limit-the-amount-of-charachters-in-a-text-area/8607/4 "2019-10-02T12:46:19Z")

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But there _ **is** _ an answer–you supplied it in the question. (:  
You just didn’t like that answer, and nobody had a _better_ answer.

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**Author:** ![drewdin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/drewdin/32/3363_2.png) [@drewdin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/drewdin)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limit-the-amount-of-charachters-in-a-text-area/8607/5 "2019-10-02T13:10:35Z")

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For some reason when I logged in today this message was flagged. I forgot it was even there! So I decided to post!

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**Author:** ![Sanderd17](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sanderd17/32/8735_2.png) [@Sanderd17](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sanderd17)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limit-the-amount-of-charachters-in-a-text-area/8607/6 "2019-10-02T13:15:59Z")

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Today, there is a better alternative, you can use the “formatted text field”, and let the format limit the text length.

I wasn’t around on these forums in 2014, and I don’t know if the formatted text field already existed back then.