Character limit for richtext

Question

Can we set character limit for rich text field

Vinay Katta · Accepted Answer

Since there is no parameter to achieve this, we need to add this as a validation, explore on the options to remove the HTML tags either by using striphtml() or substitute() functions. Problem with using striphtml() is that it converts all tags to newline characters which will add extra characters to our resultset, take this into consideration as we cannot simply wrap substitute() on top to get rid of char(10)s as the actual text may contain them which we are not supposed to exclude. validations: if(
 len(striphtml(local!data)) > 100,
 "Please enter less than 100 characters",
 ""
 )

Vinay Katta · Answer

Yes, I could verify maxSize is for overall character length including the HTML tags, if we want to exclude the tag references, we can use a validation but also have maxSize configured as well, to ensure DB field updates won't fail as you've suggested.

Character limit for richtext

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