How to remove character limit in form text area – General – Forum

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So I have a form on my site to let people upload a short essay but it’s getting cut off well below 2000 words. I’ve tried deleting and adding a new text area object to the form but it still hits the limit.

Update: Fixed the issue by giving the text form a larger character limit.




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Hi Melinda,

Are you using a standard Webflow form and Webflow’s standard form handler? It may have limits on the amount of data it will accept and store. The form itself should not be limited though, so you can try some other solutions to capture your content.

Two ideas-

Form directly wired to Basin, which may not have those limits.

Form directy wired to a Make webhook, which then does something with the content, like create a Google Doc with it in a folder you can access.




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hi @jetgirlart as I was surprised by limit so I have done some testing creating a text with length of 2416 words that is in English 17067 characters.

The result of accepting a long text is :

Is CMS to be able accept and store long text?

  1. CMS rich text field – OK
  2. CMS text multiline field – OK

Is Form <textarea> able to accept long text?

  1. standard WF textarea – NO
  2. standard WF text area with custom attribute maxlength=30000 – OK
  3. HTML embed with plain <textarea> element inside WF form – OK

conclusion
Adding custom attribute maxlength=xxxxx to WF textarea or adding custom <textarea> will solve issue with cutting text to exactly 5000 characters that WF has set internally.

m2c



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