Maximum lenghth of answer - I am getting an error "Maximum length is 8000 characters"

Question

I am getting an error "Maximum length is 8000 characters" while saving an answer. When I copy paste the same answer to microsoft word, it is reporting around 4000 characters in lengh. Can anyone please help here ?

Comments

Hi i have the same error. I need much more chars then 8k.

Answer 1

Yes, if you are using the default editor (CKeditor) then the character count includes all the HTML that is generated behind the scenes. So in this paragraph there may be N number of characters that you see, but there is also a <p> and </p> tag in the HTML which adds to the characters.

You can either use less formatting to fit your answer in (colours, sizes and links make a lot more HTML) or use a different editor like plain text or Markdown.

Answer 2

Edit the file qa-include/db/maxima.php and change the value of the variable QA_DB_MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH from 12000 to a bigger value, e.g 20000

    'QA_DB_MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH' => 20000, 

This file has maximum values for many variables. You can change them as per your requirements.

    'QA_DB_MAX_EMAIL_LENGTH' => 80,
    'QA_DB_MAX_HANDLE_LENGTH' => 20,
    'QA_DB_MAX_TITLE_LENGTH' => 800,
    'QA_DB_MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH' => 18000,
    'QA_DB_MAX_FORMAT_LENGTH' => 20,
    'QA_DB_MAX_TAGS_LENGTH' => 800,
    'QA_DB_MAX_NAME_LENGTH' => 40,
    'QA_DB_MAX_WORD_LENGTH' => 80,
    'QA_DB_MAX_CAT_PAGE_TITLE_LENGTH' => 80,
    'QA_DB_MAX_CAT_PAGE_TAGS_LENGTH' => 200,
    'QA_DB_MAX_CAT_CONTENT_LENGTH' => 800,
    'QA_DB_MAX_WIDGET_TAGS_LENGTH' => 800,
    'QA_DB_MAX_WIDGET_TITLE_LENGTH' => 80,
    'QA_DB_MAX_OPTION_TITLE_LENGTH' => 40,
    'QA_DB_MAX_PROFILE_TITLE_LENGTH' => 40,
    'QA_DB_MAX_PROFILE_CONTENT_LENGTH' => 8000,
    'QA_DB_MAX_CACHE_AGE' => 86400,
    'QA_DB_MAX_BLOB_FILE_NAME_LENGTH' => 255,
    'QA_DB_MAX_META_TITLE_LENGTH' => 40,
    'QA_DB_MAX_META_CONTENT_LENGTH' => 8000,