Qliksense May 2026 version: custom styling number of characters limitation?

[ol_dev]

Hi,

We have upgraded Qliksense to the latest May 2026 version, and it seems the multi-KPI visualization has been deprecated and Qliksense recommends using the natively supported custom styles option for sheet styling. I've tried to migrate CSS code from multi-KPI to sheet styling, but running into a problem that only half of the CSS code can be copied into the styles text editor. Is this intended? If so, why is there such a limitation on how many characters or lines of code we can use? Can someone explain? 

[hanna_choi]

Dear Qlik Support Teams.

My client has 478 lines and 9,183 characters entered in multi kpi CSS.

The test result sheet CSS is entered with only 17 lines and 512 characters.

I need to update the clinet's version, so how can I support the problem?

[lennart_mo]

Hi @ol_dev, 

you can actually change that through Dev Tools. Just open "Edit sheet" and go into "Sheet styling".

You should be able to find the element with DevTools. I've highlighted the parameter you'll need to adjust to your needs. 

It's something you'll have to do every single time you want to change your custom css, once it's more than 512 characters, but it works - at least in November 25 onPrem version.

[ol_dev]

@lennart_mo 

Thanks for your comment, the workaround does work, albeit a bit inconvenient. Can Qlik dev team elaborate why this limitation exists, and if there is plan to remove this restriction in future patches or releases? 

[PrashantSangle]

@ol_dev ,

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Design/How-to-Handle-Custom-CSS-in-Qlik-Sense-Now-and-Going-Forward/ba...

refer this

You can also try with 3rd party extension 

https://www.regarden.io/extensions/585ccce6-bb1d-47af-b265-d364f86869a0

Regards,

[ol_dev]

I am afraid the first link you provided did not answer my question, it mentions nothing about the character limitation being intentional or bug, and whether a fix is planned in not so distant future. Perhaps only a Qlik developer/employee can answer this? 

Thanks for the second link though, I am not sure I need it as @lennart_mo's workaround solves the issue at this moment, but its nice to know that there is a new repository for Qliksense extensions ever since Qlik Garden stops receiving updates.