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Real time or near real time character counter on catalog item html field

ashu1612 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:34:13 GMT

I am trying to implement a solution where on a catalog item there is html field. Users have to fill atleast 300 characters of it.

Now I have a requirement where as user types number of characters left is counted and displayed to user.

Ankur Bawiskar — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:46:15 GMT

check this link and it has some approach which you can use and enhance

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ashu1612 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:49:06 GMT

No this piece is not working . I already tried that approach.

Ankur Bawiskar — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:00:42 GMT

may be it's not working with HTML type variable.

Why not use string variable then?

Why would you require character count for HTML type variable?

HTML type variable holds html tags so the total of 300 characters will include the tags as well.

I think you should discuss with your customer and use String type variable

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Ankur Bawiskar — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:36:14 GMT

Hope you are doing good.

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