Hi all. Is it possible to limit the lines, or even characters, in a textbox that users type into?
The natural response seems to be for people to hit enter when they've typed their bit which goes down onto a new line and essentially hides what they just typed.
If the issue is that users are typing a lot with multiple lines that are being hidden, you could try making the text entry box much larger, and then dropping that into a Scrolling Panel. That would give the user the ability to type more and scroll through what they typed.
I don't believe there is a character or line limit beyond adjusting the size of text and the text entry box to only show so many lines.
Not sure if the Scrolling Panel solution is what you're looking for, but hope that helps.
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Hi Bruce,
If the issue is that users are typing a lot with multiple lines that are being hidden, you could try making the text entry box much larger, and then dropping that into a Scrolling Panel. That would give the user the ability to type more and scroll through what they typed.
I don't believe there is a character or line limit beyond adjusting the size of text and the text entry box to only show so many lines.
Not sure if the Scrolling Panel solution is what you're looking for, but hope that helps.
Hi Bruce,
With the Essay question format, you can limit the number of characters the user can enter in the textbox.
There isn't a native option to limit the number of lines of text, so hopefully folks in the community can chime in and share a workaround for that!
Has anyone ever found a way around this? The issue has come up again.
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