Limit Number of characters

I have a description column in a table where the detail becomes very long and in a list view just one record takes the whole page. I want to limit the number of characters. How should I Limit Number of characters in a specific field in a display with a link of "more" option

Hi

Go to Miscellaneous page, after Field Order and Totals, and before Security, near the bottom you can see Truncate large text fields(More...link), tick this, and the number of characters to display default is 80 but you can have what you want.

HTH

Thanks! But the description column still shows long text, I have changed the view method from html to nothing and now it works but I guess it doesn't work with html. thx a lot

Hi,
Truncate large text field option does not work for HTML field because it's not possible to truncate HTML properly.

This option only applies to the plain text fields.