Character Limit Indicator

• chrisriis

• August 7, 2014 at 5:46 am

The character limit is a great feature, but unfortunately the user is given no indication in regards to how many characters he/she’s got left.

This character counter should be added below the textfield or something so the user can finetune the text based on the character limit.

It shouldn’t be much of a hassle to implement this and would make the feature much more userfriendly!

Thanks.

• giovannicold

• August 15, 2014 at 12:19 am

ACF do not offer the option to see how many characters he/she’s got left but you can do this through jquery, create a file example.js on your theme folder and then link it to your backend, get the ID of the field and done.

http://www.scriptiny.com/2012/09/jquery-input-textarea-limiter/

• chrisriis

• August 15, 2014 at 6:25 pm

I’m already aware how I can solve this, but it would be nice if it was added to the plugin as it’s a feature that makes it much better for the users.

• Craig

• August 19, 2014 at 3:22 pm

+1 for this feature, a colour coded counter would be awesome

• John Huebner

• June 12, 2016 at 4:36 am

This won’t help everyone but I recently created a plugin that will do this. It will only work for ACF5. https://github.com/Hube2/acf-input-counter

• Beee

• September 13, 2016 at 11:34 pm

thanks @chrisriis for starting this topic. exactly what I as looking for.

thanks @hube2 for the plugin. I created a pull request for it. I quickly made your plain strings translatable.

• John

• February 24, 2017 at 7:29 am

Thanks for this, @hube2!! 😉

• followalter

• May 15, 2020 at 1:38 am

Would love this feature too. Bump!