[Rooftop Post]

Hi,

I'm trying to work out how to limit the characters in the text field of a given product. (I sell personalised products and I only have room for a certain number of words.)

Can anyone tell me if setting max characters is possible?

Thanks for your time.

[Rooftop Post]

It's okay - I've found the solution in an old thread, here: https://www.ecwid.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17299

In case anyone else has the same problem, the first solution (Maya's) worked for me. I'm using the Ecwid Wordpress plugin, so I simply logged into my wordpress dashboard, located the Ecwid "store" page (under "Pages" on the left of the wordpress dashboard/admin area), switched to the "text" view (obviously!) and pasted in Maya's code under the Ecwid widgets.

It's worth mentioning that the first time I tried, it didn't work because I hadn't got the jQuery library installed. I fixed this by following the instructions here: https://www.ecwid.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11106#5 (Thanks again to Maya - who is extremely good at explaining things simply!)

The only thing I haven't managed to do is figure out how to limit the characters in the "Text Area" boxes - Maya's code only limits characters in the "Text Field" boxes. I expect there's a really simple answer to this... but I'm afraid I don't know it as I'm not great with computers... just learning what I can as I go.

Hope this helps someone like me!

[Irene S]

Hi,

This is Irene from Ecwid Customer Care Team. Thank you for posing this solution here - it may be very helpful for other Ecwid users!

As for this request in your message:

The only thing I haven't managed to do is figure out how to limit the characters in the "Text Area" boxes - Maya's code only limits characters in the "Text Field" boxes. I expect there's a really simple answer to this... but I'm afraid I don't know it as I'm not great with computers... just learning what I can as I go.

I modified Maya's code a little. Please try this script to limit the number of characters in the "Text area" boxes for all product pages:

<script type="text/javascript">
Ecwid.OnPageLoaded.add(function(page){
  if (page.type == "PRODUCT") {  
     $("input.ecwid-productBrowser-details-optionTextArea").attr('maxlength','6');
  };
})
</script>

... and this one should be used for the particular product page:

<script type="text/javascript">
Ecwid.OnPageLoaded.add(function(page){
  if ((page.type == "PRODUCT") && (page.productId == "11111")) {  
     $("input.ecwid-productBrowser-details-optionTextArea").attr('maxlength','6');
  };
})
</script>

As before, you should change "11111" to the product ID. Also feel free to adjust the limit of characters changing '6' in this line .attr('maxlength','6') to any other number.

I hope it will help you! Let us know if any further questions appear.