max comment length

  • How can I set a character limit to the comment form so that visitors can only post let’s say 400 characters?

    Thanks for helping!

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  • Did you ever find a solution for that? I just looked through the plug-ins, and couldn’t find anything. The only thing I can think of is changing the length of the field in the database itself, but that’s probably a very messy option.

    I found this solution:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/66084

    I implemented and tested it, and it worked very well. Or so I thought. Just today, I received a comment which was longer than what I had set as the maximum length. Luckily, all my comments are held in moderation, but it drove me a little crazy.

    It turns out the code only works if javascript is enabled in the commenter’s web browser.

    I suspect there should be a way around it with code that:
    1. detects whether the browser supports javascript
    a. if java enabled, uses the java version of the comment box
    b. if java is not enabled, uses a text box with a set length size.

    My blog doesn’t get too many comments (just the occasional very long one), so I probably won’t get around to trying to write that code for a while.

    Does anyone else want to give it a shot in the meantime?

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