# Limit viewable characters

**URL:** <https://forum.adalo.com/t/limit-viewable-characters/3554>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Created:** [August 25, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/limit-viewable-characters/3554 "2020-08-25T20:47:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![djporter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@djporter](https://forum.adalo.com/u/djporter)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/limit-viewable-characters/3554/1 "2020-08-25T20:47:16Z")

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Can I limit the viewable characters of a field? For example, I want to show a description of a product but only allow ~140 characters to be seen with a “…read more” link to expand the description. Is this possible? If not is there a good workaround that anyone has come up with?

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**Author:** ![anon78309838](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@anon78309838](https://forum.adalo.com/u/anon78309838)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/limit-viewable-characters/3554/2 "2020-08-26T08:30:10Z")

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This is currently not possible. There is a similar feature request here: [Limit the Character in form field | Voters | Adalo](https://ideas.adalo.com/feature-requests/p/limit-the-character-in-form-field) that you could add your use case to as a comment there.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/system/32/40401_2.png) [@system](https://forum.adalo.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/limit-viewable-characters/3554/3 "2020-09-05T08:30:11Z")

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