# REQUEST: Show more than 265 characters in a tag field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-show-more-than-265-characters-in-a-tag-field/18876
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 9, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-show-more-than-265-characters-in-a-tag-field/18876 "2017-04-09T16:45:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-show-more-than-265-characters-in-a-tag-field/18876/1 "2017-04-09T16:45:19Z")
Very rarely I get values in tag fields than have more than 265 characters. And so to actually see them I have to click a given field, and not just expand the column and scroll to it; which is not use friendly if you are manually comparing long values trying to find something]
As I remember correctly, something like 2 years ago I already bragged about this- but in regards to actions. I do not remember on what grounds was the [if I recall correctly] the negative reaction given to my findings; but maybe tag fields could be extended, as they are something different than actions?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-show-more-than-265-characters-in-a-tag-field/18876/2 "2017-04-10T03:25:50Z")
> [@zerow](#):
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> ...have more than 265 characters. ...
> As I remember correctly, something like 2 years ago I already bragged about this- but in regards to actions. I do not remember on what grounds was the [if I recall correctly] the negative reaction given to my findings; but maybe tag fields could be extended, as they are something different than actions?
I think that there is no 265-characters limit.
Also, if you refer to an old discussion, could you spend the effort and offer a link to it?
Could it be this one?
[/t/16997/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/16997/1)
Actually, I think there is no limit as e.g. UNSYNCEDLYRICS may almost have as many characters as it likes.
There may be a limit in respect to the total tag size...
For long texts it is advisable to use the extended tags dialogue.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-show-more-than-265-characters-in-a-tag-field/18876/3 "2017-04-18T14:51:16Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> I think that there is no 265-characters limit.
> Also, if you refer to an old discussion, could you spend the effort and offer a link to it?
If I had not took the effort [because of my supposed laziness], I would have not evoked it in the first place, so that it would not made me look as a lazy person
[I may have messed up the grammar in this one]
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Could it be this one?
> [/t/16997/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/16997/1)
That's it
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Actually, I think there is no limit as e.g. UNSYNCEDLYRICS may almost have as many characters as it likes.
> There may be a limit in respect to the total tag size...
>
> For long texts it is advisable to use the extended tags dialogue.
As in [those old] regards to actions, they are still not displayed fully, if they happen to be too long
As for [my new] regards to tag fields, they are cut with
```
...
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indicator [something that should be also used in actions]
For example if I put these lyrics to a tag field
> [@](#):
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> There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief; “There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief; Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth; None of them along the line know what any of it is worth”;“No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke; “There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke; But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate; So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late”; All along the watchtower, princes kept the view; While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too; Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl; Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl
Instead of the full text I will see
> [@](#):
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> “There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief; “There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief; Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth; None of them along the line know what any of it is worth”;“No reason to get excited,” ...
And so I will have to click that field and get access to the edit mode of it, in order to see the whole content it holds