Limit comment text about jquery-comments HOT 1 CLOSED

Hi @unsruns , thanks for your inquiry and interest in jquery-comments.

Limiting comment length is a feature that we haven't (at least yet) built directly into the plugin. This is, however, really simple to achieve as we offer postComment and putComment callbacks (see the documentation) that'll let you do client side validation on the comments by just checking the length of the comment description before posting it to the server with something like:
if(commentJSON['description'].length > 1000) { alert('Maximum length for comments is 1000 characters.')} else { postCommentToServer(); }
With, of course, the alert function swapped to whatever notification system you already have in place in your app.

This could also be a somewhat useful feature for jquery-comments in general so if you're planning to do this, we'd be delighted to see a pull request from you, as long as you make sure the feature can also be turned off via the settings.

However, just as a reminder, make sure you're also validating the comment length in your backend among other model validations for both security and robustness. Client side validation is only good for giving the user a great UX.

from jquery-comments.