Long text displaying in two textbox (connect textbox)

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Hi everyone,

I have searched for a long time now but can’t find anything. It may be because I am not using the correct word for it, but I think there are people in here that can answer.

Can you “connect” two textbox, so if the text displayed in the first textbox is too long, the rest of the text will display in another textbox instead of expanding the first one ?

I work with connected textbox to database. I need no more than 370 characters in the first textbox, and if the text in the database is longer than 370, instead of expanding the size of the textbox, I would like it to go in a second textbox. The second text box will then either show the rest of the text, or a “generic” text (or collapse, I don’t know right now).

Is there a way to do this, preferably a simple way because I don’t want to have a complex thing only fot his. If not possible, I might change the layout and design instead but I am hoping on a solution to keep my design in place.

Hope this is clear

Thanks

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Hello.

There’s no easier way to do this other than querying your collection for the given text field then using the substr Javascript method to split query results into parts and assign it to the relevant text elements.

Good luck!

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Thanks Sam for your answer.

I have no idea how to do this, and as I was looking for a “simple” way to do it, I might change a bit my design or my text to fit my textboxes better instead.

Maybe a good addition to the editor would be the ability to chain textboxes after being able to set a maximum height for them in order for the overlapping text to go into the second boxes…

Thanks again