[SOLVED] Validate maximum words restriction for text area

I have a text area on a profile that I want to restrict to 150 words.

In order to keep within the rest of the form validation, I decided to use the Custom Regular Expression provided on CB fields.

My expressions is:
^(?:\b\w+\b[\s\r\n]*){1,150}$

I have also tried simpler expressions but these don't seem to validate either.

So I've set the field to validate browser side but the expression never seems to make it to the client side.

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Cheers,

You're missing a delimiter. Try the below.

/^(?:\b\w+\b[\s\r\n]*){1,150}$/

You can find more information on REGEX usage below.

www.regular-expressions.info/

Hi Kyle,

Ok, cheers for the link.

This is so bizarre, is there any chance that the reg exp validation only works with input texts? And not text areas?

I have a textarea, I add the Custom Reg Exp and save, the output to the form is now an input text, remove the reg exp and the output to the form is back to textarea.

Well weird. Is it being rewritten when the validation is added?

Cheers,

It should work fine with any field that supports custom validation. Ensure debug mode and maximum error reporting are enabled so you can debug if something went wrong. Also review browser error log while using the field to see if a JS error occurred during the JS validation.

As for the textarea input changing to a text input this is a known bug. Please see the below bug ticket.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/3599

Patch applied and works thanks