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Redactor and Word & Chars count / Limits
A very minor problem: Can it be that redactor fields don't play along nicely with the "count" and (max) "words" (or chars) feature?
<perch:content id="maintext" label="Main text" type="textarea" editor="redactor" html="true" size="l" count="words" words="50" />
The count is only updated on save, nearly accurate (differing by 2 words) - not while typing. The word limit is not respected.
Here are my settings:
Perch Runway: 2.8.21, PHP: 5.6.10, MySQL: mysqlnd 5.0.11-dev - 20120503 - $Id: 3c688b6bbc30d36af3ac34fdd4b7b5b787fe5555 $, with PDO Server OS: Darwin, cgi-fcgi Installed apps: content (2.8.21), assets (2.8.21), categories (2.8.21), collection_2 (2.8.21)
You'd need to use a Redactor plugin for that. We can only count text-based fields, not HTML fields.
I was quite sure that next to the counter, there was also a maxlength limiter, but
words=50orchars=50don't output a maxlength attribute (or similar data-attribute) - did I make them up?words="50"(note the required quotes) limits output, not input. It's useful for creating a teaser or something like that.I see - thanks!