Limit the number of character in tinyMCE

Question

Im using tinyMCe for my project.Everything is working fine but now i want to restrict the number of character that will be insert into tinyMce text

Answer 1

This is the solution that worked for me.

I basically took the code provided by @needfulthing and fixed the errors and improved it.

function initTinymce(){

        tinymce.init({
            selector: '.richtext-editable',
            plugins: ['paste'],

            max_chars: 50000, // max. allowed chars

            setup: function (ed) {                              
                var allowedKeys = [8, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 46];
                ed.on('keydown', function (e) {
                    if (allowedKeys.indexOf(e.keyCode) != -1) return true;
                    if (tinymce_getContentLength() + 1 > this.settings.max_chars) {
                        e.preventDefault();
                        e.stopPropagation();
                        return false;
                    }
                    return true;
                });
                ed.on('keyup', function (e) {
                    tinymce_updateCharCounter(this, tinymce_getContentLength());
                });                             
            },

            init_instance_callback: function () { // initialize counter div
                $('#' + this.id).prev().append('
');
                tinymce_updateCharCounter(this, tinymce_getContentLength());
            },

            paste_preprocess: function (plugin, args) {                             
                var editor = tinymce.get(tinymce.activeEditor.id);
                var len = editor.contentDocument.body.innerText.length;                             
                if (len + args.content.length > editor.settings.max_chars) {
                    alert('Pasting this exceeds the maximum allowed number of ' + editor.settings.max_chars + ' characters for the input.');
                    args.content = '';
                }                                   
                tinymce_updateCharCounter(editor, len + args.content.length);                               
            }

        });

        function tinymce_updateCharCounter(el, len) {
            $('#' + el.id).prev().find('.char_count').text(len + '/' + el.settings.max_chars);
        }

        function tinymce_getContentLength() {
            return tinymce.get(tinymce.activeEditor.id).contentDocument.body.innerText.length;
        }

}