# Character limit for Image in List

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/character-limit-for-image-in-list/5111
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/character-limit-for-image-in-list/5111 "2020-03-03T16:11:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![josh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/josh/32/4034_2.png) [@josh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/josh)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/character-limit-for-image-in-list/5111/1 "2020-03-03T16:11:35Z")

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I notice we can assign text columns to the Image field in a list. Is there a character limit there? I have one column that has a maximum three characters and would like to list the number values in the Image but it looks to only use the first character. Is there something I can do to expand this 3 characters? Just curious.

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### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/character-limit-for-image-in-list/5111/2 "2020-03-03T17:23:53Z")

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It’s just the first character of the first 2 words in the title. So a person’s name would show the first letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name…or first letter of the middle initial…in the order that they appear in the title. It doesn’t work quite how you think it does. It’s just placeholder text if there is no image url. If you wanted to see specific characters, I would recommend creating an image of the characters you want to see.

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### Author: ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/character-limit-for-image-in-list/5111/3 "2020-03-03T17:55:22Z")

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Exactly. Cloudinary can do this 😉

Text overlay:

> **[Text overlay positioning](https://cloudinary.com/cookbook/text_overlay_positioning)**
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> Dynamically add custom text strings. Customize the text's position, font, decoration, weight, color, size, and more.

Pretty sure you can create a generic square color, then control the color of the square and and do a text overlay all from columns of values in your sheet.