Enable character counter in Rich Text Editor or Have maximum character limit.

shilpi.pauranik Internal · Oct 11 2023

Idea Summary
Similar to Text Area if we can have a character count attribute for RTE as well it would reduce the effort of writing extra pieces of code in order to restrict the user on the client side.

Use Case
- For RTE items, we currently have to create a validation on the page to calculate the length of the input provided & if it is more than the desired limit through a validation error. Also, to make users aware of the maximum limit Inline help text is used.

Preferred Solution (Optional)
Character count should be included in RTE as we have for Text Area items.

This is a great idea! You can already achieve this in APEX today with a slightly different approach.

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jayson hanes Admin OP 1.7 years ago

Hi @shilpi.pauranik I think your best approach on this would be to leverage the TinyMCE supported plugin approach: Word Count plugin | Docs | TinyMCE - apparently there is a way to configure it for character count instead of word count
jayson hanes Admin OP 1.7 years ago

In fact: https://lmoreaux.hashnode.dev/oracle-apex-tinymce-word-character-count-joelkallmanday
jayson hanes Admin OP 1.3 years ago

FWIW, if you are using CKEDITOR RTE, this link might prove helpful:

https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/word-count.html#demo

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