https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-the-character-limit-wording Gravity Support Forums Topic: Change the character limit wording en-US Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:59:36 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-the-character-limit-wording#post-33983 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:53:58 +0000 Chris Hajer 33983@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Awesome, glad you got that working. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-the-character-limit-wording#post-33972 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:19:06 +0000 octavian 33972@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>That worked perfectly.<br /> Another great solution from GF support!<br /> Thank you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-the-character-limit-wording#post-33926 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:00:28 +0000 Chris Hajer 33926@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Yes, just remove the "_6" from the "gform_counter_script_6" - that will apply it to all forms, not just form 6. The 6 is your form ID. Most of the Gravity Forms hooks and filters work in the same manner (global or form-specific.)</p> <p>Make the second line look like this:</p> <pre><code>add_filter(&quot;gform_counter_script&quot;, &quot;set_counter_script&quot;, 10, 4);</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-the-character-limit-wording#post-33924 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:15:27 +0000 octavian 33924@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>it works great, thanks!</p> <p>Is there a simple way to make this global? So when I add new forms they look the same? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-the-character-limit-wording#post-33906 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:10:47 +0000 Chris Hajer 33906@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>While reading the documentation today, I found a hook we should be using instead: <strong>gform_counter_script</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_counter_script" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_counter_script</a></p> <p>Try this in your functions.php</p> <pre><code>[php] // change the 6 here to your form ID add_filter(&quot;gform_counter_script_6&quot;, &quot;set_counter_script&quot;, 10, 4); function set_counter_script($script, $form_id, $field_id, $max_length){ $script = &quot;&lt;script type=&#39;text/javascript&#39;&gt;//&lt;![CDATA[\n jQuery(document).ready(function(){&quot; . &quot;jQuery(&#39;#{$field_id}&#39;).textareaCount(&quot; . &quot; {&quot; . &quot; &#39;maxCharacterSize&#39;: {$max_length},&quot; . &quot; &#39;originalStyle&#39;: &#39;ginput_counter&#39;,&quot; . &quot; &#39;displayFormat&#39; : &#39;#input / #max&#39;&quot; . &quot; })});&quot; . &quot;\n//]]&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&quot;; return $script; } ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>Sorry about that. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-the-character-limit-wording#post-33889 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:44:06 +0000 octavian 33889@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I can't provide the link right now as I am doing it on local server.<br /> I checked the order of scripts in head through firebug, and the script you provided is the last one, just before the closing &lt;/head&gt;.</p> <p>I tried putting it earlier, just after &lt;?php wp_head(); ?&gt;, but with the same result. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-the-character-limit-wording#post-33724 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:47:13 +0000 Chris Hajer 33724@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Do you have a link to your page? It's possible that this script is being included before Gravity Forms includes their script, so theirs runs later?</p> <p>I think #max not working is because of the same thing. The #max shorthand will only work when maxCharacterSize is defined (by default it's -1), and my guess is that the limit is coming from Gravity Forms later. Please post a URL to your page, or see if the order of the scripts might be fouling things. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-the-character-limit-wording#post-33716 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:05:39 +0000 octavian 33716@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Ah, it alsmost worked.</p> <p>It displays as:</p> <p>3 of 2000 max characters<br /> 3 / #max</p> <p>Now. So the previous text is still present and also maximum number of characters is not displayed properly. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-the-character-limit-wording#post-33713 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:03:34 +0000 octavian 33713@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thank you, Chris! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-the-character-limit-wording#post-33709 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:35:32 +0000 Chris Hajer 33709@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Gravity Forms uses this script to count characters in a textarea:</p> <p><a href="http://roy-jin.appspot.com/jsp/textareaCounter.jsp" rel="nofollow">http://roy-jin.appspot.com/jsp/textareaCounter.jsp</a></p> <p>Looking at those docs, it seems like you want to use <strong>displayFormat</strong>. Your display format would look something like this:</p> <pre><code>[js] $jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var options = { &#39;displayFormat&#39; : &#39;#input / #max&#39; }; $(&#39;#yourtextareaID&#39;).textareaCount(options); });</code></pre> <p>You will be adding JavaScript to the head of the page that contains the form with your textarea:<br /> <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Where_Do_I_Put_This_Code%3F" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Where_Do_I_Put_This_Code%3F</a> </p>