Title: Description length restriction
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Description length restriction

 *  [Michael Heilemann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael/)
 * (@michael)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-length-restriction/)
 * Is there a specific reason for the length restriction on the links descriptions?
   And if there is, and you’re keeping it that way (hint hint), is it possible to
   prevent the user from typing in more than it will take, so that it doesn’t delete
   part of the text?
    A pretty cool system for showing how much text is allowed 
   can be found on the blog on [this site](http://sunbeam60.net), go into comments
   and post a new comment and start typing (you don’t have to post to see it working).

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 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-length-restriction/#post-21735)
 * Mike, what do you think about changing that to maybe a tinytext field?
 *  [Mike Little](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelittle/)
 * (@mikelittle)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-length-restriction/#post-21740)
 * Yeah, sounds like a good idea. I do have it on my to do list (along with making
   description a textedit on the fprm).
    Mike

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Mike Little](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelittle/)
 * Last activity: [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-length-restriction/#post-21740)
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