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Antonio Amézquita 35 posts 52 karma points

Nov 27, 2013 @ 08:50

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Contour text area max chars

Hi Umbraco people

I need to limit the max chars on a textarea, can anybody point me how to do this?

it will be much appreciated

Antonio

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Fuji Kusaka 2203 posts 4220 karma points

Nov 27, 2013 @ 09:02
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Hi Antonio,

Under additional Settings you can make use of Regex to limit number of characters
```
^([A-Z][a-zA-Z]{1, 29})$
```
Here min is 1 and max 29
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Antonio Amézquita 35 posts 52 karma points

Nov 27, 2013 @ 10:29

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Hi Fuji,

Thanks for replying,

for some reason the reg exp. reports error when starting to write,

any idea why?

http://screencast.com/t/9XAOEQ9pg5OM

thanks much for the help

Antonio

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Antonio Amézquita 35 posts 52 karma points

Nov 27, 2013 @ 11:42

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the problem was related to special characters like commas, etc.

thanks for the help

Antonio

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Fuji Kusaka 2203 posts 4220 karma points

Nov 27, 2013 @ 12:17
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Try this instead
```
^[A-Z][a-zA-Z]{1,29}$
```
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Nov 27, 2013 @ 12:38

Or just update the maxlenght on the textarea view http://our.umbraco.org/projects/umbraco-pro/contour/documentation/Developer/Custom-Markup/

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