# Suggestion for the "Characters Required" plugin **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-for-the-characters-required-plugin/358621 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [March 24, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-for-the-characters-required-plugin/358621 "2025-03-24T16:24:49Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![alltiagocom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alltiagocom/32/492709_2.png) [@alltiagocom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alltiagocom) #### Post date: [March 24, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-for-the-characters-required-plugin/358621/7 "2025-03-24T20:49:09Z")
> [@merefield](#): > > Way ahead of you Where were you a few hours go to prevent me from having to go through the painful process of installing the plugin? 😉 That is indeed what I wanted. A few suggestions, if you think they are worth implementing: 1 - Ability to change the color of the text. In my particular case, I like it in the original color. On my non-professional UI expertise, I like to see red only when something is over the limit, for example, too many characters that will throw an error if I try to save, or if it doesn’t follow a specific format (e.g. a URL, an email, etc). The red for me here automatically looks “weird”, because it’s almost as if something is already wrong, even before I did anything. 2 - Showing something like “0/15” kinda feels like: “_you haven’t typed anything on your limit of just 15 characters_”. I know that people eventually understand what that means, but I always like to have everything as clear as possible, even for people who know what that means. So in this case, offering a few different options would be great, one of them being `0 of N required`. I downloaded the ZIP from GitHub and made those modifications for myself and now it looks like this: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/5/2/f52c0ab28bff3cbee7ab94767fc010db63a6e104.png) It just feels less intrusive for me and more self-explanatory, without taking too much space. What do you think? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-for-the-characters-required-plugin/358621)._