I’m sure this is extremely simple, but I have gotten zero sleep lately and it is kicking my @ss haha. I have the Countable plugin counting the number of characters in my input field but it starts at 0 and counts up to 200. How do I make it display the 200 charcter limit and count down until it reaches 0?
Hi there, @jacobsphinx… after looking at that plugin for a bit, I think the short answer is you don’t (and apologies to Zeroqode if I missed something obvious or even not-so-obvious).
Anyway, because I like to try to figure things out in Bubble, I “made” my own character counter that does exactly what you described. You just need an input field, a disabled input field (which you would hide) that holds the max number of characters of the input field, and a character count field. So, something like this…
… and the formula that calculates the character count looks like this…
A little hacky? Perhaps. But I’ll take a little hacky and working the way I want it to work over the alternative on most days of the week.
Anyway, just an idea… hope it helps.
Best…
Mike
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