the [DESCRIPTION] tag will inject a Text Editor control, and associate it with the Description field.  In the code you pasted, you want the ID of the control, but what you are doing is injecting a second control with the same name.

The thing that makes this particular issue so complicated is that what is injected is a DNN Text Editor which is a wrapper for whichever text editor you are using (Fck, Telerik, etc) as configured in the web.config.

The Telerik RadEditor control has a MaxTextLength property, but I don't believe the DNN Text Editor exposes that property. To further complicate things, if you view the source of a rendered form, you'll see that the text area where the user types is actually rendered within an iframe.

Not sure at this point how to accomplish what you want, but I will continue to look for a solution and let you know if I can figure out how to set a character limit on a DNN Text Editor control.

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Steve Fabian e: steve.fabian@gooddogs.com w: http://www.gooddogs.com

Thanks Steve for the iput, I discovered limiting the character is vital, as I am running a job listing and classified sections where users register and upload their postings. Meaning I simply cannot limit their content. Unless manually as a moderatorHaving content filers is great as many just copy and paste the description from  word, filters have solved this issue..

Had a look at telerik website for a solution and all discuss both the jquery and indeed it is so complicated  (especially for a non coder) a it as to be connected with the id as you ealier referred.
I also tried to limit the size of the text box but noi like as the scroll can not be disabled

I have miodule that was developed by my programmer some time ago. He used the asp textbox (plain text without the editor) and used the following code to limit text on the asp control. I am willing to give up the telerik  editor provided get a limit on the characters. Can this be done?

But ideally, a future enhancement for the next release  would be limiting the text from the xml file (similar to limiting the size of the file upload) as one can implement  it per instance and not per module.

Any thoughts?

<td>

<asp:TextBox ID="txtOrganizer" runat="server" CssClass="field_title" Height="290px"

MaxLength="1000" Style="overflow: auto;" TextMode="MultiLine"  Width="500px"></asp:TextBox>

</td>

<td align="left">

<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="rfvEndDate2" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtOrganizer"

CssClass="notifiaction_style" Display="Dynamic">Please enter organizer info.</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="RegularExpressionValidator2" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtOrganizer"

CssClass="notifiaction_style" Display="Dynamic" ErrorMessage="A max of 1000 characters is only allowed."

ValidationExpression="^(.|\r|\n){1,1000}$"></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>

</td>

 

</td>

<td align="left">

<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="rfvEndDate2" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtOrganizer"

CssClass="notifiaction_style" Display="Dynamic">Please enter organizer info.</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="RegularExpressionValidator2" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtOrganizer"

CssClass="notifiaction_style" Display="Dynamic" ErrorMessage="A max of 1000 characters is only allowed."

ValidationExpression="^(.|\r|\n){1,1000}$"></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>

</td>