What an awesome module! A dream come true for a module that not only limits the number of words, but also checks for a minimum word count at the same time.

Only thing is that users have no idea if they've exceeded or failed to have met the max/min limits before submitting.

Are there plans to include a current word count display?

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g089h515r806 commented

There are some modules that could display current words, such as Maxlength JS, OR Maxlength JS

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Lakeside commented

Maxlength, unfortunately counts characters used: not words.

What I'm looking for is a way to display the number of words used. Ideally it will dovetail with Field Validation. Better yet it's feature that would make Field Validation the module for choice when it comes to limiting word count.

Currently Field Validation informs the user after the fact if they have too many or too few words.

Is there any chance of adding a word count display to the next release of version 7?

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g089h515r806 commented

Is it ok that display current number of words in error message? I could provide some context token that could be used in error message.

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Lakeside commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Solution found.

Switched to CKEditor, which comes with a javascript word counter. By default it doesn't update the number of words until clicked on, but you can change that in the plugin's configuration file.

Seems to work fine with field_validation module.

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fehin commented
Status: Closed (works as designed) » Active

What if you don't want to use ckeditor?
I'm using this module to set minimum text length in a field so the max modules won't work for me. I think this should be in the module since users should know how many text they have entered before submitting the form.

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g089h515r806 commented

partly fixed in 2.x, there is a [count] token which could be used on error message.

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g089h515r806 commented
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Revised for clarity.

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brandy.brown commented

Is this issue just dead? I'd like to see this feature added as I think it's important for end-users.

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jkingsnorth commented
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Status: Active » Fixed

I think g089h515r806 fixes this with #6? A count in the error message is surely enough for the scope of this module?

If someone wants to open a feature request for some JavaScript to display the current word count then fair enough.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.