diff --git a/core/client/app/styles/layouts/tags.css b/core/client/app/styles/layouts/tags.css
index 562028721f..1fab2cd7ac 100644
--- a/core/client/app/styles/layouts/tags.css
+++ b/core/client/app/styles/layouts/tags.css
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
 .settings-tag .tag-description {
     margin: 0;
     color: color(#dfe1e3 lightness(-10%));
+    word-wrap: break-word;
     font-size: 13px;
 }
 
diff --git a/core/client/app/templates/settings/tags/settings-menu.hbs b/core/client/app/templates/settings/tags/settings-menu.hbs
index f323344b88..a12a8c000f 100644
--- a/core/client/app/templates/settings/tags/settings-menu.hbs
+++ b/core/client/app/templates/settings/tags/settings-menu.hbs
@@ -22,10 +22,12 @@
                         {{gh-url-preview prefix="tag" slug=activeTagSlugScratch tagName="p" classNames="description"}}
                     </div>
 
-                    <div class="form-group">
+                    {{#gh-form-group errors=activeTag.errors hasValidated=activeTag.hasValidated property="description"}}
                         <label for="tag-description">Description</label>
                         {{gh-textarea id="tag-description" name="description" value=activeTagDescriptionScratch focus-out="saveActiveTagDescription"}}
-                    </div>
+                        {{gh-error-message errors=activeTag.errors property="description"}}
+                        {{gh-count-down-characters activeTagDescriptionScratch 200}}
+                    {{/gh-form-group}}
 
                     <ul class="nav-list nav-list-block">
                         {{#gh-tab tagName="li" classNames="nav-list-item"}}
diff --git a/core/client/app/validators/tag-settings.js b/core/client/app/validators/tag-settings.js
index e7a44cc499..7f99571d77 100644
--- a/core/client/app/validators/tag-settings.js
+++ b/core/client/app/validators/tag-settings.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import BaseValidator from './base';
 
 export default BaseValidator.create({
-    properties: ['name', 'metaTitle', 'metaDescription'],
+    properties: ['name', 'description', 'metaTitle', 'metaDescription'],
     name: function (model) {
         var name = model.get('name');
 
@@ -16,6 +16,16 @@ export default BaseValidator.create({
             this.invalidate();
         }
     },
+
+    description: function (model) {
+        var description = model.get('description');
+
+        if (!validator.isLength(description, 0, 200)) {
+            model.get('errors').add('description', 'Description cannot be longer than 200 characters');
+            this.invalidate();
+        }
+    },
+
     metaTitle: function (model) {
         var metaTitle = model.get('meta_title');