Limiting Characters in Attribute Text Box

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Re: Limiting Characters in Attribute Text Box

Checkboxes are not mutually exclusive. What happens if a customer checks both a large and small and submits the form to basket?

Can you try it?

I think what Bruce is saying is that you would then need some additonal javascript to add the checkboxes to a class, or simply change them to radio boxes.

[GRM]

Re: Limiting Characters in Attribute Text Box

I agree. Right now they can do the same, but what they normally do is check the size, add the text to text field and Add to cart. Then go back and add another. My problem has been the text field was unlimited and they would sometimes write a complete sentence to engrave on a size of a nickel or quarter. So I am trying to limit the text field to what is allowable for engraving. That's where the 14 & 12 characters come in that I am try to limit the customer to. Most customer do not read or follow instructions.

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Re: Limiting Characters in Attribute Text Box

Most customers do not read or follow instructions

This is why your web form needs to be intuitive. Toggleing checkboxes for mutually exclusive options is not normal behavior.

Most customers know what normal behavior is when interacting with a website. They can't describe it but they know when something is wrong.

If they are focused on entering an order and you made them pause to think that your website is not normal then you may lose the sale.

"Don't make them think", says Seth Godin. Ask a couple of friends unfamiliar with your site to enter an order. See if they have problems with checkboxes.

Old people, fat fingered people, and people with smart phones have difficulty using radio and checkboxes. So you should also add the <label> tags to help them make their option.

The label tag requires an id that can be dynamically generated with a naming convention. You then have a checkbox id that you can use to pass to the javascript function to change the maxlength value if a large text option is chosen.

[GRM]

Re: Limiting Characters in Attribute Text Box

I will just considered this problem closed and move on.
thanks for your help

[gsam]

Re: Limiting Characters in Attribute Text Box

Or as most engravers do you could just charge by the character. See Entity Count Pricing .