Limiting Characters In Text Fields

We're trying to integrate Shipstation with CS Cart 4.11 We've come up against an error that won't let Shipstation update new orders. Shipstation's support tells me " it appears that one of your orders has a message that has a exceeded the character limit." That limit, I'm told is 100 characters.

In our product options, we use a text area to allow the customer to input any engraving details and other information relative to their order. Is there any way to limit the input of that text area to 100 characters? Also, what is the difference between a 'Text area' and 'Text' ?

Is there another way for the customer to pass along the engraving details?

There is not such mechanism in CS-Cart to limit amount of characters in inout. As for your question, text means simple inout field, text area is textarea element

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/textarea

Thanks eComLabs. I guess the question I should have asked was - why should I select 'text' or 'text area' or visa versa? What's the difference between the two?

Thanks eComLabs. I guess the question I should have asked was - why should I select 'text' or 'text area' or visa versa? What's the difference between the two?

It depends only on your business specifics

Hello

Maybe this addon will be useful for you

https://cs-cart.pl/moduly/narzedzia/engrave-2.0/?sl=en¤cy=USD

Best regards

Robert