Hi,

I have a couple of multiple choice questions in my survey that have "Other" Options at the end. My client wants these options to be limited to no more than 150 characters, however I can't figure out where/if I can set a character limit.

Advice?

jsfiddle.net/pioul/ysC7L/

I little google search is always helpful...

You can add something like this to the question source:

Thank you both!

Apologies for asking this on an old thread, but is it possible to add this to a List - Other option?

I have used the other script for Multiple choice questions and it works great! But it does not appear to work for a dropdown list.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Try this:

Thank you! Works a treat.

Am I correct in assuming that this - [type="text"] - identifies the specific Other text input?

Yes, the [type="text"] selector will target all short-text inputs in that question. Those inputs normally have an associated class "text" (used in the previous workaround) but that class seems to have been omitted in this question type.

To be sure it woirk without javascript (never trust user):
in em_validation_q www.limesurvey.org/manual/Question_type_...28em_validation_q.29

Sorry added in duplicate by mistake

Hi,
I have tried this out but can't seem to get it working, I wonder would you mind taking a look?
Here is my question:(see Capture1.png)
It is called q313_other (see Capture2.png)
Here is the code I added:(see Capture3.png)
However I can add more than 4 chars (see Capture4.png)



Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks,
R

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To:

Thanks for the reply - I've changed it to :

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#question{q313_other} input[type="text"]').attr('maxlength', '4');
});
</script>

But no joy, it's still not working

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To:

That fixed it, thanks a million