Question on character count & email output

[gethari]

Hi my editor will send out the content via Docusign a third party signing tool which has a limit of 10,000 characters. Now my API has a validation on emailMessage.length > = DOC_SIGN_LIMIT, it will throw validation error.

In the UI, if the content is

Tiptap, and when set to BOLD , the length of this is 6 , but the output generated HTML is <p><strong>Tiptap</strong></p> which is of length 30

Is there a way to deal with this problem ?

[gethari]

Hi @bdbch / @nperez0111 do you think this could be a valid feature request for the characterCount extension ? I would like to introduce a mode HERE called html and maybe solve this problem ?

[nperez0111]

No, this does not really make sense. What you should be doing is implementing your own textCounter function to count the html string instead editor.getHTML().length.

In almost no cases would anyone want html to be what they are counting as the length of an input.

You can either extend the extension or copy the source of the extension into your code if you need any thing more specific than this

[gethari]

@nperez0111 , the extensions needs to be initialized before editor loads right ? While creating or pushing extensions I do not have access to the editor already, any ideas ? or any references that may do similar approach will be helpful

[bdbch]

When exactly do you need to send your content? Accessing the HTML string should be easily doable as soon as the editor is initiated and content is loaded.