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Limit the number of characters for a multi-line rich-text content field

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I have a multi-line rich-text content field that is part of a form that I'm building in PowerApps and that I'm going to use in SP List. I want this field to be limited to 375 characters, but that allows the user to type bullet points, line breaks, etc. Something similar to a twitter post.

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KLatch 57 on at

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I played around and you seem to able to strip out the tags from the html string the richtextbox exposes with the following:

Concat(AddColumns(Split(RichTextEditor1.HtmlText,"<"),"NewResult",Mid(Result,Coalesce(Find(">",Result),0)+1)),NewResult)

If you wanted to then prevent submissions from going over 375 characters, you could set your DisplayMode on your submit button to disabled if the length of the above formula goes over that limit.

If( Len(Concat(AddColumns(Split(RichTextEditor1.HtmlText,"<"),"NewResult",Mid(Result,Coalesce(Find(">",Result),0)+1)),NewResult))>375, Disabled, Edit )

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MavisQing 19 on at

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I find a more easy way . You can just use below and then can get the length of Rich text editor

Len(PlainText(RichTextEditor2.HtmlText))

The text above the rich text editor used :
PlainText(RichTextEditor2.HtmlText)
It directly show the text content and then you can just use the Len to calculate the length !
The 50 is the length i calculated use the <Len(PlainText(RichTextEditor2.HtmlText))>

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